A police dog accused of stealing a sandwich from a fellow officer has escaped wuff justice after he was put on trial in the court of public opinion - and…
Emergency workers 'fish' a helpless deer out of a frozen river after it accidentally fell through the ice. The poor creature was spotted swimming desperately in ice-cold waters of the…
Baffled wildlife officials in China are investigating how hundreds of wild ducks were found dead in a frozen river when they should have been flying south for the winter. The…
New research has suggested that Otzi the 5,300-year-old prehistoric iceman did not die in autumn before being preserved under winter snow, and instead had died in early spring on a…
An injured lone hiker trapped on an Alpine peak by snow and ice storms needs a "miracle" to survive, say rescuers. The man has been named only as Julian P.,…
The United States has returned a rare silver quarter shekel coin was minted by Jewish rebels 2,000 years ago on Temple Mount – and that could be worth as much…
Researchers have developed a new method to measure Arctic ice thickness and volume throughout the whole year by using satellite data. The international team consists of scientists from the Alfred…
A Swiss mountain pass buried under ice for more than 2,000 years has reappeared due to global warming. The ice covering the pass between Scex Rouge and Tsanfleuron in the…
Global warming has revealed gruesome human skulls and parts of a crashed plane entombed beneath an Alpine glacier for more than 50 years. The Piper PA-28 Cherokee had not been…
A young mountaineer took this grinning selfie and sent it to his family moments before he was killed in an avalanche. The deadly ice, snow and rock slide was triggered…