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The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps has buried and partially destroyed a centuries-old village, the BBC ...
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The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
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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 ...
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...
A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.
Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...
A massive landslide thundered down a mountainside in Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying a village and burying homes under ...
How the glacier collapsed The rockfalls altered the stress equation between the weight of the glacier and the slope, which governs its forward speed, Lambiel told AFP.