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The Valais mountain village of Blatten, which was largely buried by a landslide, is to receive emergency aid totalling CHF5 ...
Tucked in the heart of the Bernese Oberland, Grindelwald is one of Switzerland’s most enchanting alpine villages, often ...
Grindelwald, located in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, is a stunning alpine village famously known as the "Glacier Village." Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau peaks, ...
Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on ...
Limiting warming to 1.5°C could prevent twice the glacier loss seen in a +2.7°C scenario. Even if global temperatures were to ...
A large avalanche with a mixture of ice, rock, snow and water reach the valley floor is pictured in Wiler after the Birch glacier collapsing above Blatten, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 28 ...
Like the people of the Swiss Alps, the Langtangpa have been living with avalanches for centuries, and they have used both ...
These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...
A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.
Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...
The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...
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