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An avalanche of mud, ice, and rock forced residents of a picturesque Swiss village to evacuate before it buried around 90% of ...
As of Thursday morning, all but one of the residents of Blatten, a village in the Lötschental Valley, are safe after a 52,000 ...
A catastrophic landslide triggered by the collapse of Switzerland's Birch Glacier has buried nearly 90% of the Alpine village ...
Swiss glaciologists attribute the accelerating glacier thaw to climate change, which has increased the risk of such disasters ...
Authorities declare local state of emergency; footage shows huge cloud of ice and rubble hurtling down into the valley.
Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier ...
Authorities are using a drone with a thermal camera to search for the 64-year-old man. There are also concerns the debris from the glacier could cause the River Lonza flood other villages.
The Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais region collapsed yesterday, sending millions of tons of rock, ice and scree hurtling down the mountain slope and into the valley below ...
The Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Wallis region collapsed, sending tons of rock, ice, and scree hurtling down the ...
A massive glacier in southern Switzerland collapsed on Wednesday, with the debris burying a village and blocking a river, ...
Residents of the Swiss village Blatten grappled with the aftermath of a devastating glacier collapse that engulfed 90% of the ...
As the Swiss army closely monitored the situation, some experts warned of the risks of flooding as vast mounds of debris ...