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The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...
Maja Riniker, president of the House of Representatives, called on Switzerland to show solidarity with those people who have ...
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...
A glacier collapse devastated the Swiss village of Blatten, destroying homes and leaving one person missing. Evacuated days ...
A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but ...
Everything we know about the Blatten glacier collapse in Switzerland - The village was thankfully evacuated a few days ...
A massive chunk of the Birch Glacier collapsed into the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten, burying 90% of it under ice, mud, ...
Aerial footage showed flooded homes and debris scattered around a Swiss village after a huge mass of rock and ice from a ...
The remote Alpine village of Blatten was flattened after an avalanche of rock, mud and ice was sent crashing down into the ...
A Swiss Alpine village has been buried by a massive debris field after a glacier collapsed on a nearby mountain. Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock ...
Villagers lost their entire livelihood within minutes. One former resident lost their wooden family house built in 1654.
Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides — but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for ...