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A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An ...
A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.
At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...
The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps has buried and partially destroyed a centuries-old village, the BBC ...
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
The Swiss Alps are rapidly becoming a symbol of climate catastrophe, as rising global temperatures turn once-stable glaciers ...
A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury ...
The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...
A large part of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has broken away, bringing down mud and rock onto a nearby village.
Birch Glacier above the Swiss village of Blatten broke off, causing a landslide that destroyed the village. A herd of cows got evacuated via helicopter for a ride of a lifetime to get to safety.
Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...