Around thirty residents were able to return to their homes following a landslide from the Birch glacier that destroyed nearby ...

A Swiss charity, which covers the uninsured damage of natural disasters, is supporting the landslide-devasted villages of ...

Please stop sending clothes, but give us money. That’s the message from the authorities in the devasted village of Blatten.

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

The situation in the landslide area of Blatten in the Valais Lötschental remained stable in the night to Tuesday. There were no noticeable changes on the Birch Glacier. On the Kleine Nesthorn, however ...

Once they arrived at their homes, they were allowed to take urgently needed material with them, as the Lötschental regional command staff informed the Keystone-SDA news agency on request. Even though ...

A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village. Buildings that weren't buried ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten. A massive ...

Residents survive, but life in the Swiss Alps village of Blatten is forever changed, erasing centuries of tradition ...

A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village. Buildings that weren’t ...

A team led by Professor Lothar Schulte studies the effects of climate change on landslides and floods in high mountains, with ...