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

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

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 has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

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 ...

A landslide near Blatten, Switzerland submerged an entire village in the Swiss Alps, leaving most of the homes and buildings ...

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

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 ...

With the Swiss army closely monitoring the situation, flooding worsened during the day as vast mounds of debris almost two ...

The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley.

I simply love skiing in Europe’s Alps, and I’ve ... Alpine range above the Swiss mountain village of Zermatt. (Photo by Ben Davidson) Zermatt’s out-of-this-world Alpine scenery and cherished ...