Dozens of people are being evacuated by helicopter in Austria after a mudslide covered homes and mountain huts in the ...

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

A push to dissolve a Rockland County village's government is officially underway, and residents may get the final say at the ...

A Himalayan village in Nepal has vanished — emptied by climate change. Samjung, perched in the high-altitude Upper Mustang ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

From new chair lifts to more hotels, construction is moving rapidly on the mountainside west of U.S. 40 ahead of Deer Valley ...

Mountain Village voters overwhelmingly rejected a controversial plan to allow voting by nonresident homeowners whose ...

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As of Thursday morning, all but one of the residents of Blatten, a village in the Lötschental Valley, are safe after a 52,000 cubic foot Birch Glacier collapsed over the town, covering 90 percent ...

Long overshadowed by headlines of extremism, Georgia's Pankisi Valley is now welcoming travellers with Sufi rituals, mountain trails and home-cooked Kist food.

The village of Blatten, in a valley below the Bietschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps, was destroyed Wednesday by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed.

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk ...