Authorities declare local state of emergency; footage shows huge cloud of ice and rubble hurtling down into the valley.

As of Thursday morning, all but one of the residents of Blatten, a village in the Lötschental Valley, are safe after a 52,000 ...

Residents struggled on Thursday to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge chunk of glacier that buried most of ...

The Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais region collapsed yesterday, sending millions of tons of rock, ice and scree hurtling down the mountain slope and into the valley below ...

Eaton Canyon Natural Area will remain closed, but other burn areas are reopening, including popular trails in Topanga State ...

A massive landslide made up of ice, rock and mud buried a small town on Wednesday and at least one man is reportedly missing.

Swiss glaciologists attribute the accelerating glacier thaw to climate change, which has increased the risk of such disasters ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...

We have lost our village,” the mayor of Blatten said after the glacier’s explosive collapse covered it in ice, rock and mud. One person is missing.

A massive chunk of the Birch Glacier collapsed into the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten, burying 90% of it under ice, mud, ...

Flooding fears after glacier collapse buries picturesque Swiss village under mud and rock - A deluge of rock and ice careered ...

The federal government shut down for about two weeks shortly after the flood, but U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat who ...