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In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.
A massive glacier collapsed down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, burying the Alpine village of Blatten, which officials had evacuated earlier this month as a safety measure. Regional police ...
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 ...
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 ...
The researchers’ AI flagged more than 7,000 landslides within just three hours following an earthquake last year.View on ...
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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 -- located ...
At a melting glacier, a landslide, then tsunami, signal climate-related threat. Columbia Climate School. Journal Geophysical Research Letters DOI 10.1029/2021GL096716. Keywords ...
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 ...
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 ...