A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

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

The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

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The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

How the glacier collapsed The rockfalls altered the stress equation between the weight of the glacier and the slope, which governs its forward speed, Lambiel told AFP.

For days, the inhabitants of Blatten, a village in the Swiss Alps, had been warned by geologists that an unstable glacier high above their homes could collapse. On Wednesday afternoon, days after ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers. How ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...