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The Swiss Alps are rapidly becoming a symbol of climate catastrophe, as rising global temperatures turn once-stable glaciers ...

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

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

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 large portion of the Birch glacier In Switzerland, he detached himself, causing an ice, debris and mud that fully ...

Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...

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

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. State Councilor Stéphane Ganzer told ...

Swiss authorities said Friday that they were no longer considering evacuating most residents in the vicinity of a collapsed ...

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

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.