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

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...

Switzerland is known for its beautiful Alpine region, but nestled in these mountains is a charming historic village featuring ...

A massive landslide thundered down a mountainside in Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying a village and burying homes under ...

A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An ...

This earned Corippo the title of smallest municipality in Switzerland, prompting news headlines, as local officials scrambled to save the village from depopulation. A fairy-tale-like hamlet in the ...

Suter, the president of Switzerland, acknowledged the glacial collapse in a post on X. “It's terrible to lose your home,” she ...

Swiss glaciologists attribute the accelerating glacier thaw to climate change, which has increased the risk of such disasters ...

The collapse of a massive glacier in southern Switzerland has triggered the risk of flooding from an ice jam, which blocked ...

Residents were forced to evacuate the Swiss village after a huge glacier collapse caused "unimaginable" destruction.

The village of Blatten's mayor, Matthias Bellwald, said 'the unimaginable' had happened before promising that the village would make it through.