FOR Switzerland’s top envoy to the Philippines Dr. Nicolas Brühl, his current tenure in Manila has been nothing short of fulfilling—teeming with purpose and perspective. Since arriving nearly two ...

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The collapse of the glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. When the first signs of instability started to appear, the town was evacuated.

Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them to do that are not available to most countries.

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month. Summer Woolley, Alex Croft. Tuesday 03 June 2025 09:33 BST. Comments.

A picturesque Swiss village has been nearly entirely destroyed by a collapsing glacier, leaving one person missing amid a deluge of ice, mud and rock.. Dramatic before-and-after images show the ...

The village of Blatten, in the Swiss Alps, destroyed by a landslide that occurred the previous day, May 29, 2025. ALEXANDRE AGRUSTI/AFP. On the still-snowy peaks of the Swiss Alps, the first warm ...

Swiss watchmaker H. Moser & Cie. revealed a pair of new F1-centric timepieces at a Spanish Grand Prix-adjacent event last Thursday. The watches were designed in partnership with the Alpine F1 team ...

As of Sunday morning, Swiss Solidarity’s provisional donation amount for the landslide area was around CHF4.3 million ($5.2 million).

The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide living under the shadow of fragile ice, particularly in Asia, experts say.

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists told AFP on Friday.

Today, the Alps are warming about twice as fast as the global average, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2022 and 2023, Swiss glaciers lost 10 per cent of their water ...