A deluge of millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down a mountain on Wednesday, engulfing the village of Blatten. The few houses that remained intact were later flooded ...

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

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start to break apart. At the same time, the glaciers are shrinking and, as they do ...

On May 28, a massive glacier gave way and destroyed a village in the Swiss Alps after a rockfall caused it to fail under ...

Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month ...

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

Residents struggled yesterday to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their ...

Residents struggled to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their picturesque ...

The village of Blatten could be seen partly submerged under water, mud and rock on Thursday following the collapse of a large ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...