Authorities ordered the evacuation of about 300 people, as well as all livestock, from the village in recent days, “when it became clear that there’s a whole mountainside that’s about to ...

A small village in the Swiss Alps has been engulfed by ice, mud, and rock in a rare natural disaster that points to an uncertain future as unstable mountainous glaciers can break apart in ...

Swiss village evacuated over threat of rockslide. Automated narration. Learn more. FILE -View of the village Brienz and the "Brienzer Rutsch", taken in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland, May 12, 2023.

GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised … ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers. How ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers. How ...

This combo shows the village of Blatten photographed on Friday, May 23, 2025 at the top and the village of Blatten one day after a massive avalanche, triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier ...