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

There are also concerns the debris from the glacier could cause the River Lonza flood other villages.A man remains missing on ...

Days after a gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris buried much of the village of Blatten in canton Valais, the danger is ...

The huge amount of debris nearly covered the village of Blattern and makes the surrounding peaks look smaller, while a gaping ...

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

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...

A glacier collapse in southern Switzerland led to devastation in the village of Blatten, where debris blocked a river, ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland this week has sparked fears of flooding in the Alpine ...

On Wednesday, the Birch glacier in Switzerland’s southern Valais ... “There is a serious risk of an ice jam that could flood the valley below,” Antoine Jacquod, a military security official ...

A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...

Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier collapse that created a huge pile of debris after destroying a small village.