STORY: With glaciers around the globe disappearing faster than ever, Swiss scientists say this one in the Alps could be partially saved. Though only if global warming is capped below two degrees ...

A record number of glaciers will disappear from the Alps over the next decade, warns new research. Scientists have for the first time calculated how many glaciers worldwide are likely to remain until ...

The Alps will experience 'peak glacier extinction' in just eight years – with thousands of glaciers lost forever, an ominous study has predicted. Using state–of–the–art models, researchers calculated ...

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A vast section of a glacier broke apart in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, setting off a landslide of ice, mud and rocks that caused widespread damage to a small village, nine days after its 300 ...

British startup Earthwave and a group of European scientists have used satellite data to map out glacial melt across the globe — and the results are alarming. The team discovered that the European ...

BRUSSELS — Current plans to tackle global warming will only save 3 percent of Europe’s Alpine glaciers from disappearing this century, with most melting away within the next two decades, a new study ...

At 7,969 feet (2,429 meters) above sea level, on a sharp hairpin bend of the Furka Pass, stands one of the most photographed ...

The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, reveal that regions with many small glaciers at lower elevations or near the equator are particularly vulnerable – including the Alps, the ...