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Authorities say they're relieved after a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of ...
"We have lost our village, but we have not lost our heart." Devastating scene unfolds as glacier collapse buries small Swiss ...
Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide - A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley ...
A deluge of millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down a mountain on Wednesday, engulfing the village of Blatten. The few houses that remained intact were later flooded ...
Massive glacier collapse in Blatten, Switzerland, causes debris blockage and raises serious flood risks in the Lonza valley.
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 development.
Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...
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 ...