Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on ...

Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...

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 ...

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 on Friday.

The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...

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 ...

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A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...

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

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

GENEVA — 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 ...