It’s been 20 years since we were introduced to Christopher Nolan’s dark and gritty Batman trilogy. Leading star Christian ...

Added dates to most glaciers in Scandinavia. Reorganized flag attributes *RGIFlag* and *GlacType* The Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) is a global set of glacier outlines; it is intended as a snapshot ...

In 1887, the Dawes act attempted to integrate tribes into white society. In 1887, the Dawes act (also known as the Allotment Act) was passed, which was an attempt to integrate Native Tribes into ...

Despite this, many underlying processes that control glacier response to climate change are poorly understood. One potentially important set of such processes are feedback mechanisms that can amplify ...

Zurich (AFP) – The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, the Swiss Insurance ...

06/02/2025 June 2, 2025 A 100-meter-deep layer of rock and ice debris is covering the Swiss village of Blatten after a glacier collapsed from a nearby mountainside. DW's Rosie Birchard met with ...

A new international study warns that even if today’s promises hold, glaciers could lose 76% of their 2020 mass. This extent of glacier loss would come with severe consequences – a 9-inch rise in sea ...

The melting of Thwaites, grimly nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier,” poses global risks due to its potential to raise sea levels dramatically . The team launched 22 radiosondes, which are sensor ...

The village of Blatten in southern Switzerland has been destroyed after a large section of mountain collapsed onto a glacier, sending rocks and ice crashing into the valley. Scientists had been ...

A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but leaving one missing. The disaster, attributed to climate change and rapid ...

His second stroke of luck came when a sled dog tourism company that operates on the glacier overheard the 911 dispatch and offered up its helicopter to ferry rescuers to the scene, which was ...