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The Swiss village wiped off the map by a glacier
Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start to break apart. At the same time, the glaciers are shrinking and, as they do, they uncover mountainsides that are unstable without their thick coat of ice.
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
Residents struggled to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their picturesque ...
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this ... in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.How glaciers collapse — from the Alps and Andes to the Himalayas ...
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