In the heart of Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, Lauterbrunnen is a postcard-perfect village set within a dramatic glacial valley. With 72 waterfalls – including the awe-inspiring Staubbach Falls – ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities ...

GENEVA — Switzerland's president on Friday said evacuees from an Alpine village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a landslide caused by a glacier collapse were “not alone," and the ...

Reuters Residents struggled on Thursday to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their picturesque Swiss village, in what scientists suspect is a ...

with “projections … that all the glaciers in the Alps could be gone in this century,” Thompson said. Switzerland, which has the most glaciers of any country in Europe, saw 4% of its total ...

How glaciers collapse — from the Alps and Andes to the Himalayas and Antarctica — can differ, scientists say. But in almost every instance, climate change is playing a role. In Switzerland ...