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

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

The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

The Swiss Alps are rapidly becoming a symbol of climate catastrophe, as rising global temperatures turn once-stable glaciers ...

Switzerland’s glacier collapse is a chilling sign of Europe’s warming crisis – and a warning for alpine communities.

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

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

The fact that only one person is missing after the huge glacier collapse that engulfed the Swiss mountain village of Blatten ...

The remote Alpine village of Blatten was flattened after an avalanche of rock, mud and ice was sent crashing down into the ...

On August 23, 2017 three million cubic metres of rock crashed down from the Piz Cengalo mountain in eastern Switzerland, triggering a landslide into the valley. It was the largest landslide in ...