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

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

Het Alpendorpje Blatten in het zuidwesten van Zwitserland is woensdagmiddag grotendeels bedolven geraakt onder een lawine van ...

De aardverschuiving die het Zwitserse dorp Blatten grotendeels van de kaart heeft geveegd, heeft voor honderden miljoenen ...

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

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 ...

In de Zwitserse Alpen is een dorp bijna volledig bedolven nadat een stuk bergwand was afgebroken. De aardverschuiving in het plaatsje Blatten werd veroorzaakt doordat een gletsjer gedeeltelijk was ...

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

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

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

A catastrophic glacier collapse in Switzerland has buried parts of the Alpine village of Blatten under a 100-meter-deep layer ...

The Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais region collapsed yesterday, sending millions of tons of rock, ice and scree hurtling down the mountain slope and into the valley below ...