Only seven years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected the world wouldn’t heat beyond 1.5 C until the 2040s. Two years ago, the IPCC authors shifted the projection to the ...

Those most vulnerable to these climate disasters live in the poor and fragile nations that ring the Himalayas.

Authorities say they're relieved after a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of ...

In 2015, countries signing the Paris Agreement on climate change agreed to limit global warning to “well below” 2°C by the ...

"We have lost our village, but we have not lost our heart." Devastating scene unfolds as glacier collapse buries small Swiss ...

A deluge of millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down a mountain on Wednesday, engulfing the village of Blatten. The few houses that remained intact were later flooded ...

Massive glacier collapse in Blatten, Switzerland, causes debris blockage and raises serious flood risks in the Lonza valley.

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human development.

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

Aerial footage showed flooded homes and debris scattered around a Swiss village after a huge mass of rock and ice from a ...