A team led by Professor Lothar Schulte studies the effects of climate change on landslides and floods in high mountains, with ...

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

Maja Riniker, president of the House of Representatives, reserved her first words for the residents of Blatten at the opening ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier wiped the village of Blatten off the map. DW spoke to locals and experts about what happened and what comes next.

In 2023, scientists were baffled by a bizarre seismic signal that repeated every 90 seconds for nine days. Now, a study has ...

Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep worked with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, the Swiss Agency for ...

Those most vulnerable to these climate disasters live in the poor and fragile nations that ring the Himalayas.

Days after a gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris buried much of the village of Blatten in canton Valais, the danger is ...

Swiss Solidarity’s provisional donation amount for the landslide area was around CHF4.3 million ($5.2 million).

Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further ...

A massive collapse of the Birch glacier on May 28, 2025, buried most of the Alpine village of Blatten under ice and debris, ...

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