It is linked to a feedback effect. Experts issue urgent warning after observing disturbing phenomenon in the Alps: 'It's like the glaciers are shouting out' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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

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

Glaciers in the Swiss Alps began to retreat about 170 years ago. The retreat was initially modest but in recent decades, melting has accelerated significantly as the climate warms.

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

A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located ...

The Alps and Switzerland -- home to the most glaciers in any European country by far -- have seen them retreat for about 170 years, but with ups and downs over time until the 1980s, he said.

Sliding down a Steep Glacier Ridge in the Swiss Alps ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists told AFP ...

All further melting between now and October will see the size of glaciers in the Swiss Alps shrink, according to Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS). This century, the tipping point, on average ...

Glaciers in the Swiss Alps began to retreat about 170 years ago. The retreat was initially modest but in recent decades, melting has accelerated significantly as the climate warms.