RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland — 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.

RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) — Drip, drip. Trickle, trickle. That's the sound of water seeping from a sunbaked and slushy Swiss glacier that geoscientists are monitoring for signs of ...

Switzerland, which has the most glaciers of any country in Europe, saw 4% of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023, the second-biggest decline in a single year after a 6% drop in 2022.

In Switzerland, a glacier collapse destroys a village. Posted: May 29, 2025 | Last updated: May 29, 2025. A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside on ...

Switzerland, which has the most glaciers of any country in Europe, saw 4% of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023, the second-biggest decline in a single year after a 6% drop in 2022.