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Aerial footage showed flooded homes and debris scattered around a Swiss village after a huge mass of rock and ice from a ...
A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.
The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...
Focus has now shifted to the safety of those living near the Lonza River, which the regional government warns could flood as ...
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 ...
On 28 May 2025, the tranquil Alpine village of Blatten in Switzerland's Lötschental Valley was dramatically reshaped ...
Residents struggled yesterday to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their ...
A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...
that’s why Blatten was evacuated. But no-one, not even the experts, expected such huge violence. “I was speechless,” said Matthias Huss, a leading glacier specialist at Zurich’s Federal ...