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A section of a trail in Banff National Park remains closed to visitors two weeks after a rockfall killed two hikers and ...
According to these analyses, Colorado’s rock glaciers arose around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, which places them at least a thousand years after deglaciation. Robert Anderson says that understanding ...
The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...
Glaciers in Canada, the U.S., and the Alps have lost 12% of their volume since 2001, as heatwaves and soot drive melt rates ...
In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.
One of Switzerland’s glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country’s glaciers ...
The glaciers of Switzerland, which has the most of any country in continental Europe, are fading because of global warming.
Falling rocks struck people on a hiking trail in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, killing one and injuring three others Thursday ...
Huss hosted The Associated Press for a visit to the sprawling glacier this month, as he carried out his first monitoring mission as summer temperatures accelerate the thaw. Under normal conditions, ...
Khaled Elgamal says Hamza Benhilal of Surrey, B.C., was one of two people who died after a slab of mountain gave way Thursday ...
The rockfall killed Benhilal, who was 33, and Calgarian Jutta Hinrichs, who was 70. Benhilal’s body was recovered by a search ...
Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They ...