Scientists tracking the glaciers are drilling holes to gain further insights, and they have uncovered an alarming detail.

June's heat wave has caused French Alps snow and glaciers to melt faster, causing water shortages at mountain shelters just ...

SAINT-CHRISTOPHE-EN-OISANS: An early summer heatwave has accelerated the melting of snow and glaciers in the French Alps, ...

Researchers have identified the oldest known glacier ice in the European Alps, originating from the last Ice Age. US-based ...

New research on how glaciers in the European Alps will fare under a warming climate has come up with concerning results. Under a limited warming scenario, glaciers would lose about two-thirds of ...

Under a stronger global warming model, the researchers, based in Switzerland, projected that the Alps’s glaciers would disappear almost entirely by 2100. The melting process is already underway.

Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, ...

The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland's glaciers has already melted away, a monitoring service said, with ...

The Alps’ glaciers are melting, and these Swiss cartographers have work to do. A cartographer at the Federal Office of Topography in Switzerland. Jürg Gilgen draws the first lines of the ...

European trains are more than just a way to get around, they're often a destination in themselves. Rick Steves named this Swiss route among his top Swiss picks.

Glaciers in the Swiss Alps don’t look like they used to, with one tourist’s viral vacation photo illustrating the effects of a warming planet at one of Switzerland’s natural wonders.

Global warming has put a glacier in the Italian Alps at risk of collapse, officials warned, leading to road closures, travel restrictions, and evacuations in the immediate vicinity.Municipal ...