As the planet continues to warm, scientists emphasise the urgency of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate further ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

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Those most vulnerable to these climate disasters live in the poor and fragile nations that ring the Himalayas.

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

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

Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further ...

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

On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...

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

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