The survival of humanity depends on the "water towers of the world." These are Earth's water reservoirs, but for how much ...

Aziz Ziriat, 36, vanished during a hiking trip in the Italian Dolomites with pal Samuel Harris, 35 - Samuel's body was found ...

Asia is set to suffer disproportionate losses of snow and ice. This must be the year that we turn around our emissions record ...

The coolest running events around the world, from Andes ultra marathons to Italian parkruns - Running tourism blends ...

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

The collapse of a glacier in the Swiss Alps this week has underscored the impacts of a warming world on the ice-packed parts ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start to break apart. At the same time, the glaciers are shrinking and, as they do ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human development.

This week, three metres of powder snow will coat Japan’s Central Alps, a region Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata labelled ...

What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village?

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...