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A picturesque Swiss village has been nearly entirely destroyed by a collapsing glacier, leaving one person missing amid a ...
The world’s glaciers are in dire health with almost 40% of their total mass already doomed even if global temperatures ...
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A new study reveals that once our planet surpasses 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming, melting glaciers ...
A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris ...
Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further ...
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 ...
A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but ...
On May 28, a massive glacier gave way and destroyed a village in the Swiss Alps after a rockfall caused it to fail under ...
The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human development.