A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities ...

A Swiss Alpine village was largely wiped out on Wednesday after a massive glacier carrying rock and debris detached and roared down the mountainside, destroying everything in its path. Scientists ...

One person is missing after a deluge of rock, mud and ice buried 90% of a Swiss mountain village, officials have said. It came after a glacier overlooking the settlement of Blatten, in southern ...

Entire Swiss village buried beneath debris, floods Dam emptied as precaution against further mudslides Search for missing man temporarily abandoned Thawing permafrost is causing new mountain ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk ...

A catastrophic glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps has devastated the village of Blatten, burying it under ice, mud, and rock. The incident, triggered by warming temperatures and destabilized ...

ZURICH, May 30 (Reuters) - A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked ... without raising the danger level, Swiss officials said.

A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch Glacier, located above Blatten, collapsed, causing a gigantic landslide,” the ...

A picturesque Swiss village has been nearly entirely destroyed by a collapsing glacier, leaving one person missing amid a deluge of ice, mud and rock. Dramatic before-and-after images show the ...

0:34 Glacier collapse in the Alps buries Swiss mountain village The small Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed by fragments of a collapsed glacier. Footage of the natural disaster ...