ETH researchers have identified a Rock Glacier in canton Valais that is degrading and moving very quickly. Fortunately, it does not present an immediate threat to people and infrastructure. Nothing stands still for long here: measurement station on the rock glacier at the foot of the Furggwanghorn mountain [Credit: Thomas Buchli/ETH Zurich]Rock glaciers, containing ice and rock debris as alpine permafrost, are changing rapidly and...

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