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

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 ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

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 ...

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

There are strong theories on the causes ... scale falls from the front of the glacier Tuesday were expected to continue, with Wednesday's sudden total collapse considered a less-probable scenario.

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 ...

A catastrophic landslide triggered by the partial collapse of the Birch Glacier buried approximately 90% of Blatten, a small Alpine village in Switzerland's Valais Canton, BBC reported.

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

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 collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps has buried and partially destroyed a centuries-old village, the BBC ...

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.