Birch Glacier above the Swiss village of Blatten broke off, causing a landslide that destroyed the village. A herd of cows got evacuated via helicopter for a ride of a lifetime to get to safety.

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

A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An ...

Everything we know about the Blatten glacier collapse in Switzerland - The village was thankfully evacuated a few days ...

At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...

A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

We have lost our village,” the mayor of Blatten said after the glacier’s explosive collapse covered it in ice, rock and mud. One person is missing.

A large avalanche occurred on Monday night, with a mixture of ice, rock, snow and water, but did not reach the valley floor.

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury ...

For days, the inhabitants of Blatten, a village in the Swiss Alps, had been warned by geologists that an unstable glacier high above their homes could collapse. On Wednesday afternoon, days after ...