The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

Swiss authorities added livestock to the list of evacuees along with about 300 people moved out of a village threatened by a ...

Villagers lost their entire livelihood within minutes. One former resident lost their wooden family house built in 1654.

The images of Blatten’s destruction dredged up further concerns over the accelerating climate crisis. According to New Scientist, glaciers in the Swiss Alps lost 10 percent of their volume from global ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday (May 28), causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that ...

Roughly 300 people were ordered to evacuate the small town in Switzerland amid the threat of a landslide. Many animals were ...

A highlight of one of my European summers was a day I spent hiking in the Swiss Alps, on a hillside above the Berner Oberland ...

At least one person is missing after the village, Blatten, in the Valais Canton in southern Switzerland, was buried beneath ...

Karin Keller-Sutter, the Swiss president ... a helicopter drew widespread attention online. Airlifting cattle is commonplace in the Alps when farmers are facing dire circumstances.