On 14 May 2025, a large rockfall from Kleines Nesthorn, near the 3934m summit of the Bietschhorn in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, fell onto the Birch Glacier. It triggered a flow of debris into ...

Switzerland has lost roughly a quarter of its glacier volume over about a decade, and annual losses are approaching historic highs. Scientists tracking Alpine ice say melt speed keeps increasing, even ...

In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg, officials have been closely monitoring a deteriorating mountain peak that towers above its picturesque homes and hotels, after a glacier collapse and massive ...

A new international study in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, led by Rayees Ahmed (Indian Institute of Science), shows that the catastrophic nature of large ice and rock avalanches depends ...