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A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century.
After the devastating landslide, Blatten in Valais should be standing again by 2029. Municipal president Matthias Bellwald ...
Meltwater from a glacier lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate ...
Active in landslide-hit Blatten since June 27, the Swiss army will be leaving the area on Monday evening. Most of the debris ...
It was a shocking scene captured on video: a torrent of water, mud and rock slamming into the Himalayan village of ...
New research reveals that an inconic Argentine glacier is undergoing its most significant retreat in a century.
Glaciar Perito Moreno was once considered a rarity: one of Patagonia’s only stable glaciers. But scientists have found the ...
Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move ...
GENEVA (AP) — Rescuers are hailing as a “four-legged hero” a furry Chihuahua whose pacing atop an Alpine rock helped a helicopter crew find its owner, who had fallen into a crevasse on a ...
The concerns about Switzerland’s glaciers intensified recently after the southwestern village of Blatten, tucked near the Birch Glacier, was largely destroyed by a slide of rock and glacier ice ...
The concerns about Switzerland’s glaciers intensified recently after the southwestern village of Blatten, tucked near the Birch Glacier, was largely destroyed by a slide of rock and glacier ice ...