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On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
A Swiss Alpine village has been buried by a massive debris field after a glacier collapsed on a nearby mountain. Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock ...
A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...
A massive landslide thundered down a mountainside in Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying a village and burying homes under ...
A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.
The village of Blatten, Switzerland, was almost entirely wiped out by a landslide resulting from glacier collapse on Wednesday. The residents and most livestock had already been evacuated ...
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...
The Swiss government is proposing to give 5 million francs ($6 million) to the Alpine village of Blatten that was destroyed ...
The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.