On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of the glacier broke off, Bethan Davies, a professor of glaciology at Newcastle University in the U.K., told ABC News.

it will lose contact with these protective ridges, causing more ice to empty into the ocean. One of the more surprising findings to come from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration was ...

Around 26,000 years ago, the Earth hit last glacial maximum ... Eruptions at oceanic ridges don’t affect us directly, and most people probably don’t care too much if their trip from London ...

Overall, GLAMOS said Swiss glaciers lost 2.5% of their volume this ... of its border with Italy since the melting of the icy ridges between the two countries has reshaped the watersheds which ...

Significant sections of the borders between Italy, Switzerland, and Austria are defined by watershed lines that run along the highest mountain ridges. As glaciers melt or mountain peaks collapse ...

especially if glaciers begin to disappear at an accelerating rate. “Ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica are still melting,” Yuan said. “We think the ice melting could enhance seafloor spreading and volcanism at nearby mid-ocean ridges in the ...

it will lose contact with these protective ridges, causing more ice to empty into the ocean. One of the more surprising findings to come from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration was ...