More than 1,450 people, including pilgrims and children, have vanished in a wave of destruction likely sparked by a broken glacier. At least 380 people are dead.

Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of five kilometres, causing it to plummet around a kilometre into the river valley below

Learn how satellite radar captured the moment a Manhattan-sized ice island broke away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and why scientists are keeping a close watch.

A huge slab of floating ice has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, creating an ice island roughly the size of Manhattan. The 76.4 sq km section separated from the glacier’s floating ice tongue on 4 August 2026,

A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has snapped off, forming an ice island about the size of Manhattan. Satellites watched cracks spread rapidly before the 76-square-kilometer slab finally broke free on August 4.

A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has broken away, creating a rare Arctic ice island that scientists will now track from space.

A massive iceberg has broken off from the Northern Hemisphere’s longest floating ice tongue, and researchers are anticipating at least two more calving events from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier in the near future. Satellite imagery from the European ...

Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about to be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away. “Its final demise could happen suddenly, and to avoid being caught on the hop, we have already ...

The situation on the Weisshorn near Randa, canton Valais in southwestern Switzerland, remains tense: following several glacier collapses on Monday, the local authority has raised the alert level to 3. Further collapses in the coming days cannot be ruled out.