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

The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide ...

The glacier’s collapse and the subsequent landslide—which was so intense that it corresponded to a magnitude 3.1 earthquake ...

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

A catastrophic landslide triggered by the partial collapse of the Birch Glacier buried approximately 90% of Blatten, a small ...

The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.

Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. This article appears alongside new research that estimates that more than three-quarters of the world's glacier mass ...

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

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

As glaciers melt, they can also increase the risk of deadly floods and landslides. A glacial collapse in Switzerland this ...

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