From afar, the Rhone glacier looks pristine, but on closer inspection the surface is covered with white blankets to slow the melting of the rapidly retreating ice. The dusty, white fleece covers ...

GENEVA — The Rhône Glacier is getting dressed up in white blankets and for a good cause: to protect it from further melting as a result of global warming. Every spring for the past eight years, ...

A giant glacier on Mount Titlis in Switzerland has shrunk drastically in recent decades, thanks to global warming. Officials from a local skiing resort are now trying to slow the melting by throwing ...

Warming temperatures mean that many glaciers are shrinking. A ski company using the Gemstock glacier above Andermatt, Switzerland, has answered this trend by wrapping a critical ski ramp near the top ...

Over the last decade, the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps has been shrinking at a worrying rate. Around 1,148 feet of its ice thickness has been lost since 1856 – and 131 feet of that total has ...

Near the Furka Pass in the Swiss Alps is the beautiful Rhone Glacier. For the last several years, locals in central Switzerland have taken an unusual path towards saving the Rhone. They're covering it ...

For 150 years tourists have been traveling to the town of Belvédère, high in the Alps of southern Switzerland, for the chance to walk inside a glacier. Around 1870, a local family had the idea of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cloth sheet protects glaciers from melting LOCATION: Helags glacier, Sweden The experiment was performed on the Helags ...

Tourists in July 2015 walk towards an ice cave next to insulating foams wrapping up the Rhone Glacier to prevent it shrinking under the summer sun Tourists in July 2015 walk towards an ice cave next ...