Have you experienced natural disasters in your country of residence? How are these events predicted and responded to?

A picturesque Swiss town was buried after part of a glacier broke off and came sliding down a mountain in the Alps. Officials say the village of Blatten, population 300, had been evacuated earlier ...

The residents of two hamlets in Blatten, Switzerland, were able to visit their homes following a landslide that devasted the ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

A team led by Professor Lothar Schulte studies the effects of climate change on landslides and floods in high mountains, with ...

On May 28 a huge chunk of a glacier in the southern Swiss Alps collapsed, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most ...

The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

A landslide from the Birch Glacier has buried ... is a stark reminder of the alarming rate of glacier retreat in the Swiss Alps, driven by climate change. Swiss glaciologists have reported ...

Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...