The Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais region collapsed on Wednesday, sending a mass of rock, ice and scree hurtling into the village of Blatten in the valley below. The huge pile of ...

Geneva (AFP) – A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists told AFP ...

His second stroke of luck came when a sled dog tourism company that operates on the glacier overheard the 911 dispatch and offered up its helicopter to ferry rescuers to the scene, which was ...

Two Democrats who've spent decades in Congress this week became the latest in their party to face primary challenges from much younger opponents. Longtime Democratic Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer has ...

Residents in several Swiss Alpine communities remain on high alert on Friday as a local river swelled dangerously behind a natural dam of rubble, rocks and ice following a glacier collapse earlier ...

Authorities in Switzerland on Friday remained on high alert after a massive glacier collapse buried much of the village of Blatten in the Lotschental valley on Wednesday afternoon. The collapse of ...

Wiler (Switzerland) (AFP) – Swiss authorities said Friday that they were no longer considering evacuating most residents in the vicinity of a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village ...

BLATTEN, SWITZERLAND — The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the ...

AP The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.