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A rescue mission resumed on Monday (June 2) to find a missing 64-year-old man in Blatten after a mass of glacial debris ...
The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...
External Content The Swiss army helped with the rescue and clean-up operation and, later, most of the residents were able to return home. Dangers still exist, however. Protective infrastructure was ...
According to the head of the Valais Natural Hazards Office, the cone of debris from the landslide in Blatten is over 100 ...
Only seven years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected the world wouldn’t heat beyond 1.5 C ...
Those most vulnerable to these climate disasters live in the poor and fragile nations that ring the Himalayas.
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In all scenarios, glaciers lose mass rapidly over decades and then continue to melt at a slower pace for centuries — even ...
There are strong theories on the causes, and to what degree it is linked to climate change — but these are yet to be ...
The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide ...
Authorities say they're relieved after a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of ...
"The longer we delay emissions cuts, the more we burden future generations with irreversible change." Scientists issue grim ...