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A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...

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

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

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Switzerland’s glacier collapse is a chilling sign of Europe’s warming crisis – and a warning for alpine communities.

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...

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

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

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...