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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 ...
Canton Valais is releasing CHF10 million ($12.1 million) in emergency funds for the mountain village of Blatten, which was wiped out by a devastating glacier collapse last week.
The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...
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 ...
A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An ...
In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten entirely. A massive ...
Everything we know about the Blatten glacier collapse in Switzerland - The village was thankfully evacuated a few days ...
A massive landslide thundered down a mountainside in Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying a village and burying homes under ...