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

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

A tragic event occurred in the Swiss Alps. A rock-ice avalanche destroyed the village of Blatten, which had been evacuated ...

Weather conditions and avalanche activity in the region are being examined as part of the probe. This isn’t the first time skiers have been found dead in the Swiss Alps. 0:43 5 missing skiers ...

A massive glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps has devastated the village of Blatten, with millions of cubic meters of ice and ...

A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice ... one day after a massive avalanche triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier demolished the village of Blatten, Switzerland.

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon ... geologists had identified the risk of an imminent avalanche of rock and ice from above, were hit hard by the ...

Six people died in Switzerland over the weekend in accidents in the Alps, officials said Sunday ... “The bodies of five people were quickly found,” Swiss police said in a statement.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...