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These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...
Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.
At the High-Level UNDRR-BIMSTEC event under the eighth edition of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR 2025 ...
As climate change and overuse strain Europe's water systems, the European Commission on Wednesday unveiled a strategy to ...
Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...
Despite mounting evidence of global warming’s costs, the Trump administration has made multiple moves to avoid tracking ...
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...
As glaciers melt, they can also increase the risk of deadly floods and landslides. A glacial collapse in Switzerland this ...
Rescuers in the Swiss Alps were searching for at least one person missing after 1.5 million cubic meters of ice, rock and mud ...
A new study with ETH Zurich, finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5°C, ...
A glacier collapse devastated the Swiss village of Blatten, destroying homes and leaving one person missing. Evacuated days ...