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How climate change is forcing Italy & Switzerland to redraw national borders

October 04, 2024 12:19 pm

Climate change is causing glaciers to melt at an unprecedented rate. Among other things, this has led to age-old natural boundaries having to be redrawn.

Two bodies found after avalanche in Italian Alps

January 07, 2024 10:10 pm

The victims, who had been wearing snowshoes to help navigate the mountain, have not been named.

Body of German man missing for 32 years found on Swiss glacier

August 31, 2022 9:56 am

A retreating glacier helped solve the cold case of a 27-year-old who went missing in the Alps while hiking alone in 1990.

Buried in Alps after 1966 plane crash, Made in India gems on show soon

December 12, 2021 7:02 am

🔴 These were part of the wreckage of a Mumbai-Geneva Air India passenger flight that crashed near the Mont Blanc summit on January 24, 1966, and killed all 117 passengers aboard, including nuclear scientist Homi Jehangir Bhabha.

Giant glacier in the Alps is in danger of collapse, experts warn

September 26, 2019 12:14 pm

A cold October could reduce the movement of the lower part of the glacier, he added, allowing the crevasse to close.

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Warmer winters, greener Alps: Europe's skiers grapple with climate change

January 04, 2023 2:18 pm

Sparse snowfall and unanticipated warm winter weather in Europe’s central mountains is causing excess growth of grass over the Alps.

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