The landslide in Blatten VS and the resulting floods caused damage totalling CHF 320 million. Around CHF 260 million of this ...

Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...

Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide ...

According to an initial estimate, the landslide in Blatten in Valais will cost insurers around 320 million Swiss francs. The ...

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 Swiss mountainside the day before.

At the «Day of Insurers,» the president of the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA), Stefan Mäder, emphasized the industry’s ...

There has been a huge outpouring of solidarity in Switzerland for the people of Blatten. Yet debate around the cost of ...

The disaster has been captured in stark detail by the OLI-2 instrument on Landsat 9. The images reveal a landscape ...

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

The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28 A 64-year-old man went missing when the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed after a glacier ...

Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further evacuations.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.