A surprising phenomenon has just been observed in Antarctica thanks to Sentinel-1 satellites: a glacier, the East Kohler, is "stealing" ice from another neighboring glacier. In West Antarctica, ...

Scientists say greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal have already locked in enough global warming to doom many of the world's glaciers. The landslide that buried most of a ...

(Bloomberg) -- A Swiss glacier has collapsed, destroying most of the Alpine village of Blatten in a wave of rock and ice. Live footage on Wednesday shows 3 million cubic meters of rock and mud ...

In the study, an international team of 21 scientists from 10 countries used eight glacier models to calculate the potential ice loss from more than 200,000 glaciers outside of Greenland and ...

While the debris insulated the glacier and slowed melting, its weight caused the ice to begin moving — which accelerated dramatically a few weeks ago. Authorities ordered the evacuation of about ...

The heat has sped up the melting of the glacier ice and rain has been forecast for the next days. Both could lead to a buildup of accumulated water and increase the risk of further landslides.

Geneva — The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday due to unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...