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The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps buried and partially destroyed Blatten, a centuries-old village.
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...
Switzerland's president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...
The remote Alpine village of Blatten was flattened after an avalanche of rock, mud and ice was sent crashing down into the ...
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. State Councilor Stéphane Ganzer told ...
Swiss authorities said Friday that they were no longer considering evacuating most residents in the vicinity of a collapsed ...
Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...
A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...