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

Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...

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

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A new study reveals that once our planet surpasses 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming, melting glaciers ...

The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps buried and partially destroyed Blatten, a centuries-old village.

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

Massive glacier collapse in Blatten, Switzerland, causes debris blockage and raises serious flood risks in the Lonza valley.

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

On May 28, 2025, the tranquil Swiss village of Blatten in the Lötschental Valley was dramatically transformed when a massive ...

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

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