In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.

Check dams set up on the water from the Lonza river flows over the mud and stone, after the formation of a lake by the last houses of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Saturday, May 31, 2025.

Mud and rocks cover a village after a glacier collapse onto Blatten, Switzerland, on May 28, 2025, in this screen grab taken from a video.KEYSTONE-SDA via REUTERS ...

Tourism companies in the Lötschental in Canton Valais are getting creative as visitor numbers have plummeted following the ...

Swiss federal president Karin Keller-Sutter observes from a helicopter the damage caused by the catastrophic landslide destroying the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Friday, May 30, 2025.

Video of livestock in Switzerland being airlifted to safety prior to landslide. Footage filmed in Blatten, Switzerland, shows a bull being carried by a helicopter as it is being evacuated prior to ...

GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised … ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that ...

Check dams set up on the water from the Lonza river flows over the mud and stone, after the formation of a lake by the last houses of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Saturday, May 31, 2025.