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The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps buried and partially destroyed Blatten, a centuries-old village.

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

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The remote Alpine village of Blatten was flattened after an avalanche of rock, mud and ice was sent crashing down into the ...

A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On ...

Around the Greenlandic and Antarctic coastlines, sediment plumes associated with glaciers are significant sources of lithogenic material to the ocean. These plumes contain elevated concentrations of a ...