The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...

What happened to Birch Glacier is what we would expect from rising temperatures in the Alps and elsewhere,” one scientist ...

Scientists say greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal have already locked in enough global warming to ...

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

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 ...

Tax Break for Sports Owners: Tucked in the domestic policy billis a change to the tax code that could potentially cool the ...

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 huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside, coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine ...