The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

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

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

A catastrophic landslide triggered by the partial collapse of the Birch Glacier buried approximately 90% of Blatten, a small ...

"We have lost our village, but we have not lost our heart." Devastating scene unfolds as glacier collapse buries small Swiss ...

Swiss authorities say rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village are preventing emergency services ...

A catastrophic landslide triggered by the partial collapse of the Birch Glacier buried approximately 90% of Blatten, a small Alpine village in Switzerland's Valais Canton, BBC reported.

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

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...