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The remains of a German climber who has been missing since 1986 have been recovered on a glacier in the Swiss Alps, the Valais canton police said on Thursday. On July 12, climbers found human ...

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The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland's glaciers has already melted away, a monitoring service said, with ...

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The permafrost in Switzerland's Alps is the warmest since records began, the Swiss Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

The best time to visit the Swiss Alps is going to heavily depend on what you'd like to do! If you're a skier, snowboarder or a winter sports fan, November through February will be the best times ...

Switzerland's glaciers have shrunk by more than 10 percent in just two years, according to new data, marking a significant acceleration in ice loss due to climate change.

Decades after reading Heidi as a child, I finally got to see the Swiss Alps during a week-long visit to central Switzerland in September on the distinctive red train.

On 14 September, ETH Zurich officially inaugurated the new "Alps" supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano. The celebrations in Lugano were attended by Federal ...

Glaciers in the Swiss Alps began to retreat about 170 years ago. The retreat was initially modest but in recent decades, melting has accelerated significantly as the climate warms.

Best Times To Visit Zurich The best time to visit Zurich is between June and September, when average temperatures, which hover in the high 70s, make lake and river swimming possible.