The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

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

The landslide in Blatten VS and the resulting floods caused damage totalling CHF 320 million. Around CHF 260 million of this ...

GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village ... as well as livestock, from Blatten. Switzerland's president said on Friday that the government was ...

Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...

Swiss debates on preserving Alpine life intensify amid climate threats. Discover the discussion shaping mountain village ...

Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide ...

The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28 A 64-year-old man went missing when the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed after a glacier ...

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, a large portion of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland partially collapsed and released a chunk of ice that set off an enormous landslide, largely burying the village of ...

A devastating natural disaster has struck the Swiss alpine village of Blatten after a massive section of the Birch glacier broke away, triggering a destructive avalanche that tore through the ...

GENEVA — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried ... of a lake by the last houses of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Saturday, May 31, 2025. Credit: AP/Cyril Zingaro ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — 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 ...