A Swiss man broke the world record for the longest amount of time in direct contact with snow. Elias Meyer, a powerlifter, spent two hours and seven seconds buried under a 3-ft. pile of snow on April ...

Residents of a town near Vancouver were on stand-by to evacuate Wednesday as Canada's devastating wildfire season worsened, ...

A Swiss man put his cold endurance to the test and broke a Guinness World Record by spending more than 2 hours buried in the ...

The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

A British man has died after an avalanche at a ski resort in the French Alps, local officials say. The 27-year-old man died after being buried in snow at a ski resort and carried about 15m (49ft ...

The alert level remains high for the storm affecting the north and central parts of Italy: Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna are at risk of flooding due to the rising waters of the River Po. Just days ...

In the French resort of Val ... above 1,800 metres turned to snow. Many roads were shut in all three countries due to fallen trees or the risk of avalanches. Heavy trucks were banned from using ...

LUSERNE - More than a metre of snow fell in a few hours in the Alps as a rare spring storm left ... authorities and residents by surprise. In the French resort of Tignes, authorities ordered ...

The twin warnings came after more than a metre of snow fell in a few hours in the Alps ... French village of Termignon, worried about the risk of floods when the snow melts in the spring sunshine ...

Saint-Julien-Mont-Denis (France) (AFP) – More than a metre (3.3 feet) of snow fell in a few hours in the Alps as a rare spring ... and media said. In the French resort of Val Thorens, a woman ...

OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP Two people were still missing in Italy on Friday, April 18, after an unusually heavy spring storm across the Alps dumped more than a meter of snow in some places ...