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These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
Residents survive, but life in the Swiss Alps village of Blatten is forever changed, erasing centuries of tradition ...
causing the landslide which also buried the nearby Lonza River bed, raising the possibility of dammed water flows. “There’s a risk that the situation could get worse,” Ganzer said ...
"Every community in Switzerland that's affected by a hazard has a hazard map. They're federally mandated for the areas where ...
The search for a missing 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday because of unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.The ...
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village ... Dramatic drone footage shows the moment the glacier collapsed. In Switzerland, the mountainside gave way Wednesday near the village of Blatten ...