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The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...
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"We have lost our village, but we have not lost our heart." Devastating scene unfolds as glacier collapse buries small Swiss ...
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, ...
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...
Residents survive, but life in the Swiss Alps village of Blatten is forever changed, erasing centuries of tradition ...
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 ...
Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...
The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human development.
An unstable glacier in the Swiss Alps collapsed this week, sending a deluge of rock, ice and mud through the valley below and ...