The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a ...

Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...

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

The disaster has been captured in stark detail by the OLI-2 instrument on Landsat 9. The images reveal a landscape ...

Sponsor Message In a press release on Thursday, the Valais local government said the Birch Glacier had collapsed in near-entirety above Blatten village. Ice and rock several dozens of yards thick ...

The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28 A 64-year-old man went missing when the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed after a glacier ...

Glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini says that while it is too early to know whether climate change was behind this avalanche, ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

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 ...

For days, the inhabitants of Blatten, a village in the Swiss Alps, had been warned by geologists that an unstable glacier high above their homes could collapse. On Wednesday afternoon, days after ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.