Glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini says that while it is too early to know whether climate change was behind this avalanche, global warming is contributing to destabilizing the mountains and we could se ...

Residents of Val de Bagne woke up on Monday to new debris flows after a major mudslide forced around 30 people to evacuate.

Like the people of the Swiss Alps, the Langtangpa have been living with avalanches for centuries, and they have used both ...

The Swiss government is proposing to give 5 million francs ($6 million) to the Alpine village of Blatten that was destroyed ...

The residents of two hamlets in Blatten, Switzerland, were able to visit their homes following a landslide that devasted the ...

A catastrophic glacier collapse in Switzerland has buried parts of the Alpine village of Blatten under a 100-meter-deep layer ...

On August 23, 2017 three million cubic metres of rock crashed down from the Piz Cengalo mountain in eastern Switzerland, triggering a landslide into the valley. It was the largest landslide in ...

As climate change accelerates, the World Meteorological Organisation is calling for more investment in monitoring and ...

The collapse of the glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. When the first signs of instability started to appear ...

A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier wiped the village of Blatten off the map. DW spoke to locals and experts ...