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.

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

Swiss glaciers have recorded their worst melt rate since records began more than a century ago, ... the Alps’ glaciers are expected to lose more than 80% of their current mass by 2100.

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

Glaciers in the Swiss Alps don’t look like they used to, with one tourist’s viral vacation photo illustrating the effects of a warming planet at one of Switzerland’s natural wonders.

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

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 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 ...

JUNGFRAUJOCH, Switzerland (Reuters) - The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although ...

A Swiss Alpine village was largely wiped out on Wednesday after a massive glacier carrying rock and debris detached and roared down the mountainside, destroying everything in its path. Scientists ...

This photograph shows the small village of Blatten, in the Bietschhorn mountain of the Swiss Alps, destroyed by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed and swallowed up by the ...