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The Swiss Alps are rapidly becoming a symbol of climate catastrophe, as rising global temperatures turn once-stable glaciers ...

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

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

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 large portion of the Birch glacier In Switzerland, he detached himself, causing an ice, debris and mud that fully ...

Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. State Councilor Stéphane Ganzer told ...

Swiss authorities said Friday that they were no longer considering evacuating most residents in the vicinity of a collapsed ...

Authorities added livestock to the list of evacuees along with about 300 people who were moved out of a village threatened by a possible landslide from an Alpine mountain in Blatten, near the Rhone ...

The last major collapse above Blatten occurred early on Monday evening ... engineer for natural hazards in Upper Valais, on Monday afternoon. It is a matter of hours and not necessarily days ...