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

A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

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

The Birch glacier However, this was not because of extra snowfall. Its advance "was quite likely due to the pre-loading with rockfalls from this mountain, which has finally collapsed.

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

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

The landslide flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten. A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On Wednesday ...

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...

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

In terms of the volume and the extent of the damage caused, the collapse of the Birch Glacier is unprecedented for the Swiss Alps. Several rockfalls from the Kleine Nesthorn Mountain above the Birch ...

Video. Footage captured the aftermath of a massive landslide in southern Switzerland, where a glacier collapse sent rock and ...