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After the devastating landslide, Blatten in Valais should be standing again by 2029. Municipal president Matthias Bellwald ...
Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move ...
Active in landslide-hit Blatten since June 27, the Swiss army will be leaving the area on Monday evening. Most of the debris ...
RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group ...
Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them to do that are not available to most countries.
Switzerland glacier collapse has triggered a disaster that’s left much of the Alpine village of Blatten buried under a mountain of ice, rock, and debris. This massive landslide hit on Tuesday ...
A large avalanche with a mixture of ice, rock, snow and water reach the valley floor is pictured in Wiler after the Birch glacier collapsing above Blatten, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 28, 2025.
RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group ...
Matthias Huss, of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and glacier monitoring group GLAMOS, stands at the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader ...
RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group ...
RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) -- Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes.