In this video we show how warming temperatures are slowly thawing permafrost and affecting the stability of Swiss mountains.

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Switzerland has not shown it is meeting the requirements of a landmark climate change decision from Europe’s highest human ...

For thousands of years, people have survived in the Alps with traditional, straightforward food and drink. From strudel to ...

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world ...

Glaciers serve as the largest reservoirs of frozen freshwater on Earth. They primarily form when massive ice sheets from the Arctic and Antarctic break into smaller sections. Additionally ...

Photographer Thomas Wrede captures the fragile beauty of glaciers across the world in his White Was The Snow project ...

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

The study drew on an international effort that included 233 estimates of changes in glacier weight. In all, the world’s glaciers have lost more than 7 trillion tons of ice since 2000 ...