Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on ...

A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...

Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

Grindelwald, located in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, is a stunning alpine village famously known as the "Glacier Village." Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau peaks, ...

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 ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists told AFP on Friday.

A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.