As climate change accelerates, the World Meteorological Organisation is calling for more investment in monitoring and ...

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

Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...

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

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, ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

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

The glacier’s collapse and the subsequent landslide—which was so intense that it corresponded to a magnitude 3.1 earthquake ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...