The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.

Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer ...

The village of Blatten suddenly disappeared under a massive avalanche. Thankfully, inhabitants had been evacuated.

New projections show that temporarily overshooting this limit—even up to 3°C—would lock in severe and irreversible glacier ...

The InSAR Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps are produced from image pairs measured by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) twin satellites TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X (TSX / TDX). The measurements in this ...

Penguins could be playing a crucial role in stabilizing the climate in Antarctica when they go No. 2, according to new ...

James  Witlow  Delano travels to Union Glacier to join scientists revealing how subtle shifts in ice and bedrock, are uncovering the planet’s climate future ...

A23a, the largest iceberg in the world, is breaking into thousands of pieces near South Georgia Island. It is now anchored ...

The first-ever direct flights from the United States to Greenland will give tourists easier access to the island’s history, ...

Scientists studying extreme life forms living at the base of a glacier in Antarctica made a shocking discovery.

Even if global temperatures eventually return to the 1.5°C target, glaciers worldwide will suffer irreversible loss.

A week doesn’t go by without President Donald Trump talking about “needing” to acquire Greenland. As reporters rush to cover this mysterious territory, much has been said the island’s politics and ...