According to NPR, scientists monitoring the Birch Glacier above the town of Blatten, Switzerland, noticed it sliding faster than usual and urged the government to clear out all 300 people. Days later, ...

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss authorities cleared a village in the country's east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide submerged a vacated village in the southwest. Residents of ...

A Swiss Alpine village was largely wiped out on Wednesday after a massive glacier carrying rock and debris detached and roared down the mountainside, destroying everything in its path. Scientists had ...

On Wednesday afternoon, a large portion of the Birch Glacier collapsed near the Swiss mountain village of Blatten, burying nearly 90% of the village under a massive landslide of ice, mud, and rock.

BLATTEN, Switzerland (AP) — When a devastating landslide all but swallowed his Swiss village and toppled his three-generation family-owned hotel in May, Lukas Kalbermatten was overwhelmed by a sense ...

WILER, Switzerland (Reuters) -Swiss residents were struggling on Thursday to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge chunk of glacier that has buried most of their picturesque village, in ...