Walking high above Gimmelwald, my favorite Swiss village ... and Schiltalp. The cows stay at the alps for about 100 days. The farmers hire a team of cheesemakers to work at each alp—mostly ...

It's one of the iconic images of Switzerland – brown cows grazing in the Alps. But breeders say the animals are now so big and heavy that their health is compromised and they struggle to fit into ...

Cows have been airlifted from a Swiss Alpine meadow in a process used by farmers to move the injured ones. The process is done annually to the members of the herd who can't walk down from their ...

The herd of eight young cows became trapped in a river in the Canton of Graubunden in Eastern Switzerland They had left the safety of their own meadow in an attempt to reach greener grass on the ...

A view of glacial melt in the Swiss Alps. Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The European Alps cover over 600 miles ...

In a helicopter high above the Swiss Alps, we see climate change in action. The glacial ice is melting at an unprecedented rate, revealing items frozen long ago. A scar suddenly appears in the ...