There are strong theories on the causes, and to what degree it is linked to climate change — but these are yet to be ...

The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

And this is what actually happened," Matthias Huss, the director of Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (GLAMOS), told AFP. "The glacier accelerated strongly in response to this additional loading ...

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A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that buried most of a mountain ...

Just a few weeks after the picturesque village of Blatten, Switzerland, was evacuated over fears of an impending rockslide, a ...

A 64-year-old man is missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside. The ...

The collapse of a massive glacier in southern Switzerland has triggered the risk of flooding from an ice jam, which blocked ...

Our planet is getting warmer every year, but over the last couple of years in the Swiss alps that’s on epic display. And while glaciers in Switzerland lost a record amount of ice last year, 2023 was ...