On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

A massive landslide thundered down a mountainside in Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying a village and burying homes under ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday (May 28), causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that buried most of a mountain village that had been evacuated due to the risk of a ...

A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An official stated that 90% of the village of Blatten, with an estimated ...

Swiss authorities were on Thursday monitoring for possible flood risk in a southern valley, following a massive glacier ...

A landslide near Blatten, Switzerland submerged an entire village in the Swiss Alps, leaving most of the homes and buildings ...

A landslide near Blatten, Switzerland submerged an entire village in the Swiss Alps, leaving most of the homes and buildings ...

A massive glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday buried nearly the entire village of Blatten in the canton of Valais ...

A 64-year-old man remained missing Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before. The landslide sent plumes of dust ...

(NYT) — A vast section of a glacier broke apart in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, setting off a landslide of ice, mud and rocks that caused widespread damage to a small village, nine days after its 300 ...

At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...