The Swiss Alps Reckon With the Threat of Collapsing Glaciers

We don’t live in an easy landscape.” As climate change leads to collapsing glaciers and mudslides, some in Switzerland ...

A year after glacier collapse, Blatten residents rebuild lives in Swiss Alps

By Marleen Kaesebier, Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani WILER, Switzerland, May 26 (Reuters) - Hotel Momentum stands above ...
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Flooding fears after glacier collapse buries picturesque Swiss village under mud and rock

A picturesque Swiss village has been nearly entirely destroyed by a collapsing glacier, leaving one person missing amid a deluge of ice, mud and rock. Dramatic before-and-after images show the sheer ...

Q&A: The Alps are crumbling, and permafrost is not playing the role many assumed

From the Kleines Nesthorn to Pizzo Cengalo, the Alps appear to be crumbling. Permafrost researcher Robert Kenner has penned a ...
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Glaciers will keep melting for centuries even if warming stops, study warns

Glaciers will continue melting for centuries even if global temperatures stabilise immediately, according to a new study. About 40 per cent of the world's glacier mass is already set to disappear due ...