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Glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini says that while it is too early to know whether climate change was behind this avalanche, ...
Everything we know about the Blatten glacier collapse in Switzerland - The village was thankfully evacuated a few days ...
Residents of Val de Bagne woke up on Monday to new debris flows after a major mudslide forced around 30 people to evacuate.
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 ...
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 part of a glacier broke off in the Swiss Alps, causing a landslide of rocks, ice and mud that covered about 90% of ...
Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.
Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on ...
The Swiss government is proposing to give 5 million francs ($6 million) to the Alpine village of Blatten that was destroyed ...
The village of Blatten, in the Swiss Alps ... Jörg Kachelmann, a well-known weather presenter in German-speaking Switzerland and Germany, did not share that restraint. "In the years and decades ...
Swiss authorities remained on high alert Friday after a massive glacier collapse buried large parts of the alpine village of ...
A glacier collapse devastated the Swiss village of Blatten, destroying homes and leaving one person missing. Evacuated days ...