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Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide - A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley ...
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...
The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human development.
Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...
A picturesque Swiss town was buried after part of a glacier broke off and came sliding down a mountain in the Alps. Officials ...
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...
Dramatic drone footage shows the moment the glacier collapsed. The collapse highlights the growing risks of climate ...