Glaciers have preserved organic materials — leather, wood, textiles, body parts — that can tell a richer, more human story ...

The European Alps are an iconic, crescent-shaped mountain range associated with images of wintry peaks and snow-covered villages. But new research confirms a worrying trend about the winter-sports ...

The majority of Americans who envision European mountains imagine postcard vistas of snow-covered peaks and quaint villages nestled on hillsides. The experience of visiting the Alps provides all of ...

Weeks of high summer temperatures above 3,000m stripped away the protective snowpack, leaving behind fragile snow bridges and bare ice.

An international team of geologists, headed by members of the University of Bern, has shown for the first time that the Swiss Alps are being lifted faster than they are being lowered through ...