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The United States and 10 allies say the military cooperation between Russia and North Korea flagrantly violates U.N.
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...
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 ...
The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.
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 ...
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 ...
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...
A village in Switzerland that was home to 300 people has almost been completely destroyed after a glacier collapsed onto it.
As glaciers melt, they can also increase the risk of deadly floods and landslides. A glacial collapse in Switzerland this ...
A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...