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

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.

The recent catastrophic glacier collapse in Switzerland, which obliterated Blatten village, underscores the urgent global crisis of glacial melting due to climate change. As the Dushanbe conference on ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The best time to visit the Swiss Alps is going to heavily depend on what you'd like to do! If you're a skier, snowboarder or a winter sports fan, November through February will be the best times ...