A Swiss village with about 300 residents evacuated when part of a nearby mountain began to crumble. A glacier collapsed, ...

A massive chunk of rock and ice broke free from a glacier in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, triggering a landslide. It caused ...

The unimaginable has happened,” said the mayor of Blatten, an Alpine village in southern Switzerland that is now covered in ...

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

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge.

A collapse of the Birch Glacier in the Swiss Alps has buried nearly 90% of the picturesque village of Blatten under an ...

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.