Global reinsurer Munich Re said climate change is increasing the probabilities of extreme weather, including conditions to ...

A disturbing portion of Switzerland's glaciers has already melted this year — considerably earlier than experts expected.

The United Nation’s top development diplomat has stepped down after nearly two decades of leading two of the organisation’s ...

A series of small rockfalls occurred above the village of Brienz/Brinzauls in eastern Switzerland between July 9 and 12. This ...

A new study published in Earth’s Future by researchers from Uppsala University with Belgian, French, and German universities have shown that climate ...

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

Climate change threatens tourism in Switzerland - and is partly caused by it. How can the industry become more sustainable?

Global insured catastrophe losses in H1 2025 could reach as high as $90 billion, according to Jefferies, making it the second ...

A hike along Switzerland’s Aletsch offers escape from the summer heat — but comes with a poignant sense of time running out ...

Rescuers are crediting a hiker's long-haired Chihuahua for helping them find him in a crevasse after he plunged into a Swiss glacier.

Blatten was evacuated before a chunk of a glacier broke off, triggering a dangerous cascade of ice, earth and rock towards the village, in a manner similar to what Kandersteg has been preparing for.

The concerns about Switzerland’s glaciers intensified recently after the southwestern village of Blatten, tucked near the Birch Glacier, was largely destroyed by a slide of rock and glacier ice ...