Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...

The Swiss Alps are rapidly becoming a symbol of climate catastrophe, as rising global temperatures turn once-stable glaciers ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

Residents in the Lötschental valley have been asked to prepare for evacuation. It comes after Wednesday's glacier collapse dumped millions of cubic meters of ice ...

A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village. Buildings that weren't buried ...

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

There is a risk that the water dammed up by the masses of debris in the Lötschental valley could overflow, according to the authorities. Three million cubic metres of rock fell on Blatten on ...

A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day ...

A number of Alpine communities in Switzerland's Lötschental valley have been asked to be ready to evacuate their homes following a massive landslide on Wednesday. Rivers in the area have become ...