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Days after a gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris buried much of the village of Blatten in canton Valais, the danger is ...
A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...
In southern Switzerland’s Wallis region, concerns about flooding have lessened following the collapse of a glacier that ...
The huge amount of debris nearly covered the village of Blattern and makes the surrounding peaks look smaller, while a gaping ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...
Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has ...
On Wednesday the Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais ... "There is a serious risk of an ice jam that could flood the valley below," Antoine Jacquod, a military security official ...
Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley ... On Wednesday the Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Wallis region collapsed, sending tons ...
Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier collapse that created a huge pile of debris after destroying a small village.