When Rose McAdoo visits a glacier, she doesn’t just bring a harness, rope and crampons. She brings a portable camp stove, sugar, powdered whole milk and heavy cream, and a gelatin substitute called ...

Glaciers are the planet’s frozen water banks. They sustain water supply, ecosystems, and even cultural traditions. But many ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

A Swiss Alpine village has been buried by a massive debris field after a glacier collapsed on a nearby mountain. Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock ...

The images of Blatten’s destruction dredged up further concerns over the accelerating climate crisis. According to New Scientist, glaciers in the Swiss Alps lost 10 percent of their volume from global ...

The United States and 10 allies say the military cooperation between Russia and North Korea flagrantly violates U.N.

A glacier collapse has caused major damage to a town in Switzerland. Blatten, Switzerland, has been deluged and is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock. Reports indicate 90% of the village has been ...

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 ...

Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer ...