Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...

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 Swiss mountainside the day before.

The landslide in Blatten VS and the resulting floods caused damage totalling CHF 320 million. Around CHF 260 million of this ...

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 part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a ...

Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide ...

There has been a huge outpouring of solidarity in Switzerland for the people of Blatten. Yet debate around the cost of ...

At the «Day of Insurers,» the president of the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA), Stefan Mäder, emphasized the industry’s ...

According to an initial estimate, the landslide in Blatten in Valais will cost insurers around 320 million Swiss francs. The ...

The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28 A 64-year-old man went missing when the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed after a glacier ...

In the wake of the Blatten landslide, which almost flattened the Swiss Alpine village, there is increased focus on other ...

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.

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