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Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...
Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony ...
Glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini says that while it is too early to know whether climate change was behind this avalanche, ...
Swissinfo has published a very nice article highlighting the growing landslide risk in Switzerland. For example, in the canton of Graubünden (which is the focus of the article) alone, 17,000 ...
While the Chilkat Valley is not unique in facing landslides, the combination of steep slopes, heavy rainfall, aging ...
Limiting warming to 1.5°C could prevent twice the glacier loss seen in a +2.7°C scenario. Even if global temperatures were to ...
Extreme weather events have become more frequent across the world and barely anyone is spared. While Mumbai was dealing with ...
Kolkata, forsaken city of joy provides adventure junkies with the best hiking trails in Eastern India. With its flat terrain ...
Leveraging satellite imagery, Earth observation is a prime example of where the geospatial field intersects with the space ...
The Swiss village of Blatten, which was decimated by a landslide, is to be rebuilt in three to five years, the municipal ...
Other factors, such as a further appreciation of the franc or lower rates in the eurozone, would be needed before the ...
Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on ...