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Mountains are among the planet’s most beautiful places. They’re also becoming the deadliest
These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...
Flooding fears after glacier collapse buries picturesque Swiss village under mud and rock
A picturesque Swiss village has been nearly entirely destroyed by a collapsing glacier, leaving one person missing amid a ...
Nearly 40% of the world’s glaciers are already doomed, scientists say
The world’s glaciers are in dire health with almost 40% of their total mass already doomed even if global temperatures ...
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Devastating scene unfolds as glacier collapse buries small Swiss village in mud and rock: 'The unimaginable has happened'
The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps buried and partially destroyed Blatten, a centuries-old village.
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700-pound boulder pins Alaska man face-down in glacier creek for 3 hours
An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound boulder for three hours survived the ordeal with only ...
Alaska man survives three hours pinned face down under 700-pound boulder
Kell Morris does not remember exactly how he started tumbling or how he ended up on his stomach, but he remembers when a 700-pound boulder hit his back -- the jolt of pain it caused as it pinned him ...
Swiss glacier collapse renews focus on risks of climate change as glaciers retreat around the world
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...
How Switzerland's Birch glacier collapsed
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...
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700-pound boulder pins man with Idaho ties face-down in a glacier creek for three hours
An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound (318-kilogram) boulder for three hours survived the ...