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In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten. A massive ...
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 ...
Dramatic drone footage shows the moment the glacier collapsed. The collapse highlights the growing risks of climate ...
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
A massive glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps has devastated the village of Blatten, with millions of cubic meters of ice and ...
We have lost our village,” the mayor of Blatten said after the glacier’s explosive collapse covered it in ice, rock and mud. One person is missing.