A summary of recent science news highlights Swiss efforts to partially preserve the Alps' largest glacier amidst inevitable ...

The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss ...

Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass ...

Swiss scientists suggest the Aletsch Glacier, the largest in the Alps, can be partially preserved if global warming is ...

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

Everyone has a favorite, but when it comes to hiking, some parks do it better than others. These are the best national parks ...

Researchers from England's University of Leeds have used satellite images to mark glacier melt at 11,000 square miles in three decades, for example. "Warmer temperatures are linked to the land cover ...

The Furka Pass, located at an elevation of nearly 8000 feet, is noted for its shorter length compared to other passes but compensates with exceptional views of the southern Swiss Alps and smooth ...

Explore Switzerland’s Zermatt, as well as Chamonix in France, for thrills on the slopes and mind-blowing scenery.

Credit: Getty Images/RooM RF It’s day one of Park Trek’s four-day walking tour in the Victorian Alps. The tricky descent ... landscape of alpine grasses, granite outcrops and spectacular ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to ...