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Swiss Glacier Collapse Is a Lesson on Climate Disaster Management
Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...
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How does a glacier swallow a village?
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Swiss glacier collapse could cost huge sums: insurers
The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...
Nearly 40% of the world’s glaciers are already doomed, scientists say
The world’s glaciers are in dire health with almost 40% of their total mass already doomed even if global temperatures ...
Sustainable Switch Climate Focus: Swiss village destroyed by glacier collapse
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Scientists issue grim warning after analyzing glacier collapse timeline: 'Much of this damage cannot simply be undone'
A new study reveals that once our planet surpasses 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming, melting glaciers ...
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Devastating scene unfolds as glacier collapse buries small Swiss village in mud and rock: 'The unimaginable has happened'
The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps buried and partially destroyed Blatten, a centuries-old village.
A river dammed by a huge Swiss landslide is flowing again. That's a relief to authorities
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised worries ...
Flood risk threatens Swiss valley after glacier destroys village
Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further ...
Flood fears recede after Swiss glacier collapse
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
How Switzerland's Birch glacier collapsed
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...
Switzerland's glacier collapse: How a village vanished and what it means for the future
A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but ...