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Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.
According to the head of the Valais Natural Hazards Office, the cone of debris from the landslide in Blatten is over 100 ...
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...
The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...
The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...
A chunk of a large glacier broke off, triggering an enormous landslide that has destroyed the village of Blatten.
Everything we know about the Blatten glacier collapse in Switzerland - The village was thankfully evacuated a few days ...