A new 3D simulation tool developed by ETH and SLF researchers now allows for significantly more accurate predictions of ...

In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg, officials have been closely monitoring a deteriorating mountain peak that towers ...

Decenas de personas estaban siendo evacuadas en helicóptero en Austria el martes después de que un deslizamiento de tierra ...

Dozens of people are being evacuated by helicopter in Austria after a mudslide covered homes and mountain huts in the ...

Blatten municipality remains off limits due to ongoing dangers. “Blatten still has a future,” declared the mayor, Matthias Bellwald, immediately after the disaster. “We’ll go back there.” ...

The 300 residents had been evacuated ahead of the disaster, but a 64-year-old man is still missing. Blatten municipality remains off limitsExternal link due to ongoing dangers.

A river in the Swiss Alps, which was dammed by a landslide that buried much of the village of Blatten, is now flowing through the debris, authorities have said. A huge mass of rock, ice and mud ...

On the afternoon of 28 May, a massive glacier avalanche destroyed the idyllic village of Blatten in the Valais region of Switzerland. Footage of the disaster rapidly circulated around the world, ...

Dramatic before-and-after images show the sheer scale of devastation in the picturesque Alpine village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, 90 per cent of which was buried when the Birch Glacier ...

In Switzerland, after a glacier collapsed onto Blatten, fear is gripping the mountains The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming ...

We meet him in Wiler, 3.5 kilometers (2.1 miles) from Blatten and the closest accessible point to the disaster zone, which is now serving as a crisis coordination hub.

Blatten is now buried in rock and mud, and the clean-up operation is on hold because the tonnes of debris have blocked the River Lonza, causing a flood risk. So it is too soon to do a complete ...