Switzerland • Landslides • Rock-Ice Avalanches The catastrophic 2025 Blatten avalanche became extraordinarily mobile as millions of cubic metres of rock and glacier ice rushed through Switzerland’s Lötschental. A new reconstruction shows that the disaster could only be reproduced when the moving mass underwent extreme frictional weakening. Illustration: New modelling of the 2025 Blatten disaster […]

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Greenland • Glaciers • Ocean Life • New Research Scientists sent an underwater robot into one of the most dangerous and poorly observed environments on Earth: the submerged edge of a glacier in South Greenland. Instead of finding a biological wasteland of cold, dark and sediment-choked water, the cameras encountered large aggregations of krill, fish, […]

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