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In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.
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Using satellite imagery to study the effects of a 2019 landslide on the Amalia Glacier in Patagonia, a University of Minnesota-led research team found the landslide helped stabilize the glacier ...
This photograph shows the small village of Blatten, in the Bietschhorn mountain of the Swiss Alps, destroyed by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed and swallowed up by the ...
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk ...
Massive landslide in Alaska sweeps over glacier. July 13, 2012 / 3:08 PM EDT / AP (AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Even by Alaska standards, the rock slide in Glacier Bay National Park was a huge event.
A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier ...
The researchers’ AI flagged more than 7,000 landslides within just three hours following an earthquake last year.View on ...
An extraordinarily large landslide has been discovered near Glacier Bay in southeast Alaska. Aerial photos show a snow-capped mountain with a huge chunk taken out of it—and a debris field that ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Even by Alaska standards, the rock slide in Glacier Bay National Park was a huge event. It was a monumental geophysical event that was almost overlooked until a pilot ...