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Glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini says that while it is too early to know whether climate change was behind this avalanche, global warming is contributing to destabilizing the mountains and we could se ...
The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley.
At around 3:30 pm local time, a huge collapse occurred on the Birch Glacier, emergency services in the Wallis region said.
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...
The collapse of a massive glacier in southern Switzerland has triggered the risk of flooding from an ice jam, which blocked ...
Massive glacier collapse buries Swiss village; 90% of Blatten destroyed. Birch Glacier collapse triggered a massive landslide ...
Scientists say greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal have already locked in enough global warming to ...
A 64-year-old man is missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside. The ...
Everything we know about the Blatten glacier collapse in Switzerland - The village was thankfully evacuated a few days ...
The collapse of the glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. When the first signs of instability started to appear ...