The collapse of the glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. When the first signs of instability started to appear ...

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

Residents struggled to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge chunk of glacier that buried most of their ...

A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but ...

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

A catastrophic landslide triggered by the collapse of Switzerland's Birch Glacier has buried nearly 90% of the Alpine village ...

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 ...

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

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 ...