The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

Videos on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Ltschental valley. Houses and buildings were partially submerged under the brownish mud mass. Local police said a 64-year-old man was reported missing. Search and rescue operations involving drones with thermal cameras were ongoing.

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

The New York Times reports that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the Alps are heating up at about nearly twice the global average rate. They also said that in 2022 and 2023, Swiss glaciers lost 10 percent of their water volume. The BBC warns that all of the Swiss glaciers could be gone this century.

The collapse of a glacier in the Swiss Alps this week has underscored the impacts of a warming world on the ice-packed parts of planet Earth. When the melting Birch Glacier on crumbled on Wednesday, it engulfed the picturesque village of Blatten in the country's

Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter reaffirmed on Friday the full support of the federal government for the residents of th

In Blatten, Switzerland, after a glacier avalanche, the situation is becoming increasingly difficult. Water blocked by the landslide threatens to flood additional towns. Key information The glacier avalanche destroyed part of the village of Blatten in Switzerland.