Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

Scientists at EPFL have created MammAlps, a multi-view, multi-modal video dataset that captures how wild mammals behave in ...

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

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.

Nine million cubic metres of rock and ice came crashing down into the valley It was such a force that it registered on every geological monitoring station in Switzerland Barbara and Otto Jaggi ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in the Swiss Alps. Some experts are now daring to raise the possibility ...

For days, the inhabitants of Blatten, a village in the Swiss Alps, had been warned by geologists ... of growth and collapse as they strain under geological forces. “Pieces of mountains have ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led ... all mountains in the Alps could collapse — and they don't," he said. "It's a combination of the long-term changes in the geology of the mountain.

A Swiss Alpine village was largely wiped out on Wednesday after a massive glacier carrying rock and debris detached and roared down the mountainside, destroying everything in its path. Scientists had ...

AMONG the magnates of Swiss geology, no name has held a more honoured place than that of Bernard Studer, who now at the ripe age of ninety-three years has passed away. Upwards of sixty years ago ...