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

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

The Swiss Alps are rapidly becoming a symbol of climate catastrophe, as rising global temperatures turn once-stable glaciers ...

A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village. Buildings that weren't buried ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

There is a risk that the water dammed up by the masses of debris in the Lötschental valley could overflow, according to the authorities. Three million cubic metres of rock fell on Blatten on ...

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month ...

A number of Alpine communities in Switzerland's Lötschental valley have been asked to be ready to evacuate their homes following a massive landslide on Wednesday. Rivers in the area have become ...

In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten. A massive ...

Residents survive, but life in the Swiss Alps village of Blatten is forever changed, erasing centuries of tradition ...

In the Swiss Alpine imagination, already rich with legends, this Lötschental valley, in the southern canton of Valais, occupies a special place − a sort of original, Edenic sanctuary.

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...