Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides — but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

A Swiss Alpine village has been buried by a massive debris field after a glacier collapsed on a nearby mountain. Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock ...

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

As a chunk of Switzerland's Birch Glacier breaks off, partially destroying villages, scientists have revealed the glaciers ...

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

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed this week is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in ...

The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

The Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais region collapsed yesterday, sending millions of tons of rock, ice and scree hurtling down the mountain slope and into the valley below ...