News

The collapse of a Swiss glacier last week destroyed most of Blatten, a tiny village in Switzerland's southern Valais region that was home to about 300 people. Footage of the May 28 collapse showed ice ...
In 2023, scientists were baffled by a bizarre seismic signal that repeated every 90 seconds for nine days. Now, a study has ...
The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...
This is an excerpt of the Sustainable Switch Climate Focus newsletter, where we make sense of companies and governments ...
The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps buried and partially destroyed Blatten, a centuries-old village.
Those most vulnerable to these climate disasters live in the poor and fragile nations that ring the Himalayas.
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten entirely. A massive ...
Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...