However, in areas where the parts of the glacier lift off the seabed and the ice begins to float, tidal action is pumping warmer sea water, at high pressure, as far as 10 kilometers under the ice.

The study’s findings match previous research on the neighboring Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest ice streams in Antarctica, which scientists also found started retreating rapidly in the ...

Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” on a daily basis making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research, which used ...

Video shows Swiss village being flattened by glacier collapse By Rachel Goodman Global News Posted May 28, 2025 4:46 pm Updated May 29, 2025 8:08 am ...

A massive glacier collapse on May 28, 2025 in southern Switzerland partially destroyed the small village of Blatten, which had been completely evacuated last week due to the impending danger ...

A massive landslide destroyed 90% of Blatten, Switzerland, a town nestled in a valley below a steep mountainside. "We've lost our village," Blatten Mayor Matthias Bellwald said in the wake of the ...

The landlocked Alpine country has the most glaciers of any country in Europe, and saw 4 per cent of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023. That was the second-biggest decline in a single year ...

A couple’s photograph taken at the same spot 15 years apart shows the shockingly rapid decline of Switzerland ’s Rhone glacier. Duncan Porter, an X user, shared a photograph he clicked at the ...

GENEVA (AP) — A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that ...