The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...

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

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.

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

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.