The glacier’s collapse and the subsequent landslide—which was so intense that it corresponded to a magnitude 3.1 earthquake ...

A landslide from the Birch Glacier has buried 90% of Blatten village. Authorities had warned of a potential collapse due to visible ice cracks. One man remains missing, while no deaths have been ...

A catastrophic landslide triggered by the partial collapse of the Birch Glacier buried approximately 90% of Blatten, a small ...

The Health and Human Services Department has canceled millions of dollars in funding for the drugmaker Moderna to develop a ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

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

Daniel Farinotti, Professor of Glaciology at ETH Zurich and the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), asserts that the exact causes of Wednesday’s glacier collapse are far ...

The small village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps was largely destroyed by a landslide that occurred as a result of the partial collapse of the Birch Glacier on May 28, 2025. 30,899 people played the ...

The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide ...

Geneva (AFP) – 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 ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier wiped the village of Blatten off the map. DW spoke to locals and experts about what happened and what comes next.