An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, destroying a village, is beginning to drain, authorities said Friday, reducing ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers. How glaciers ...

They have been described as the water towers of the world, and with good reason. Glaciers are a vital source of fresh water for more than half of the global population, but as they shift and recede, ...

Thousands of glaciers have vanished over the past few decades and as the world continues to heat up, they are expected to disappear at an increasing pace. New research gives a glimpse of just how quic ...

The remains of a climber who went missing in 1994 have been found on a Swiss glacier, police said. Climbers ascending the Ober Gabelhorn mountain discovered human remains on Oct. 15, the southern ...

The body of a climber who had been missing for 31 years was recently found on a melting alpine glacier in Switzerland. According to a news release published on November 13 by the Valais Cantonal ...

Sophie Thatcher, star of the show “Yellowjackets,” which began its third season in 2025. (When Sophie Thatcher’s on-screen, ...

Swiss authorities confirmed the discovery of human remains on a glacier in the Ober Gabelhorn region, solving the disappearance of a mountaineer who went missing nearly three decades ago. According to ...

Subsequent investigations led to the positive identification of the remains Police said the mountaineer was a Swiss citizen who was born in 1969 -- and vanished with another mountaineer in November ...

A group made the discovery while climbing Switzerland's Ober Gabelhorn last month Pierre WITT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Swiss police said that mountaineers found human remains during their climb of the ...

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