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

Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further ...

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

On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human development.

A glacier partially collapsed in Switzerland, burying the village of Blatten in a huge landslide of ice, rock, and mud after residents had been evacuated. Scientists called the collapse of the ...

What happened to Birch Glacier is what we would expect from rising temperatures in the Alps and elsewhere,” one scientist ...

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

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A Swiss snowboarder was one of the two killed in an avalanche on the Eiger on May 17, 2025. The deceased, Eliot Dänzer, was a professional snowboarder who competed on the FWT Challenger series ...

On Saturday, May 17, 2025, a large avalanche on the western side of Switzerland's Eiger caught and carried seven ... While high-altitude areas in the Alps still hold enough snow to ski in May, warming ...