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There are also concerns the debris from the glacier could cause the River Lonza flood other villages.A man remains missing on Thursday following a massive landslide that engulfed a village in southern ...
Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has ...
The huge amount of debris nearly covered the village of Blattern and makes the surrounding peaks look smaller, while a gaping ...
Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
The collapse of a massive glacier in southern Switzerland has triggered the risk of flooding from an ice jam, which blocked ...
A glacier collapse in southern Switzerland led to devastation in the village of Blatten, where debris blocked a river, ...
After a massive glacier collapse in the canton of Valais at the end of May 2025, the Swiss government published a list of ...
Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides — but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for ...
Climate-related risks in Switzerland are rising, driven by intensifying summer droughts and higher temperatures. That is the ...
A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...
Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier collapse that created a huge pile of debris after destroying a small village.