Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has ...

The huge amount of debris nearly covered the village of Blattern and makes the surrounding peaks look smaller, while a gaping ...

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...

The collapse of a massive glacier in southern Switzerland has triggered the risk of flooding from an ice jam, which blocked ...

The shocking event in Valais on Wednesday, May 28, caused the village of Blatten to be subjected to an immense amount of ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...

A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...

Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier collapse that created a huge pile of debris after destroying a small village.

ZURICH (Reuters) - A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland this week has sparked fears of flooding in the Alpine ...

On Wednesday, the Birch glacier in Switzerland’s southern Valais ... “There is a serious risk of an ice jam that could flood the valley below,” Antoine Jacquod, a military security official ...