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

The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

According to the head of the Valais Natural Hazards Office, the cone of debris from the landslide in Blatten is over 100 ...

Maja Riniker, president of the House of Representatives, called on Switzerland to show solidarity with those people who have ...

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...

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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 ...

In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten entirely. A massive ...

Villagers lost their entire livelihood within minutes. One former resident lost their wooden family house built in 1654.

More than 4.6 million cubic yards of ice, rocks, and snow avalanched from Birch Glacier onto the village of Blatten in the ...

Swiss authorities remained on high alert Friday after a massive glacier collapse buried large parts of the alpine village of ...

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 ...