Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes.

In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.

One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...

One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers.

Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide ...

BLATTEN, Switzerland — Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder.

An aerial view after a massive avalanche, triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier, destroyed most of the houses in the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Thursday, June 5 Michael Buholzer ...

Days before most of the glacier collapsed, authorities had ordered the evacuation of about 300 people, as well as livestock, from Blatten. Switzerland's president said on Friday that the ...

On the afternoon of 28 May, a massive glacier avalanche destroyed the idyllic village of Blatten in the Valais region of Switzerland. Footage of the disaster rapidly circulated around the world, ...

Prior to the catastrophic collapse, officials had evacuated the roughly 300 residents of Blatten, Switzerland, out of concern for the glacier's weakening structure, according to the BBC. When the ...