The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier wiped the village of Blatten off the map. DW spoke to locals and experts about what happened and what comes next.

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Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

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

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside, sending plumes of dust skyward and burying ...

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A video is going viral on social media showing a major chunk of Birch Glacier collapsing in Switzerland's Alpine range.

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