Temperatures across the Swiss Alps are currently rising twice as fast as the global average, leading to devastating ...

“The extinction of snow worries and hurts many,” the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, the major German-language Swiss paper, reported on Jan. 8. “Will the Swiss soul be able to cope?” It is not just ...

File Experts at GLAMOS (Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland) described the situation as critical, with more than half of the glaciers they monitor losing all their snow cover during the summer months.

A Swiss man put his cold endurance to the test and broke a Guinness World Record by spending more than 2 hours buried in the ...

The Swiss version of the winter pastime ... reach the starting point during a nearly two-and-a-half-hour hike in the snow after riding the cable car up part of the way. Hazards, it turns out ...

The amount of snow covering Swiss glaciers at the end of the winter this year was 13% below the 2010-2020 average, said a group of glacier monitoring experts on Monday. Each spring, when snow ...

Intense, short-lived summer downpours are expected to become both more frequent and more intense across Alpine regions as the ...

The snow brought disruption at the beginning of the Easter holiday The Swiss ski resort of Zermatt was cut off and tourists and residents were told to stay indoors in the French resort of Tignes ...

VERBIER, Switzerland — The wind whips against your face when you soar above the Swiss Alps. The ground falls away when you’re gliding over jagged peaks, with only the sound of the breeze and ...

The Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss reports that, because of global warming, precipitation now falls more often as rain rather than snow in Switzerland, particularly in ...