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The permafrost in Switzerland's Alps is the warmest since records began, the Swiss Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.
Scientists at EPFL have created MammAlps, a multi-view, multi-modal video dataset that captures how wild mammals behave in ...
For a truly unique winter experience, try “snow golf” at Wasatch Mountain State Park, where the white stuff becomes both ...
These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.
The village of Blatten, in the Swiss Alps, destroyed by a landslide that ... It is the first to surrender a village to the combined forces of geology and a rapidly warming planet.
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists said on Friday. Experts ...
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 ...
It was such a force that it registered on every geological monitoring station in Switzerland Barbara and Otto Jaggi, in the neighbouring village of Kippel, were getting their chimney fixed.
A collapsing glacier roared down a mountainside in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday ... a specialist in high-mountain geology and glaciers with the University of Lausanne. He told RTS Swiss Television ...
"What happened is the unthinkable, the catastrophic worst-case scenario," Christophe Lambiel, a specialist in high-mountain geology and glaciers at the University of Lausanne, told RTS Swiss ...
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 ...