A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury ...

At around 3:30 pm local time, a huge collapse occurred on the Birch Glacier, emergency services in the Wallis region said.

Late last year, scientists warned that a glacier known as ‘the doomsday glacier’, which has the potential to cause sea levels to rise across the planet, could be on the verge of collapse.

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an official reception at the chancellery in Berlin, 28 May, 2025 ...