Maja Riniker, president of the House of Representatives, called on Switzerland to show solidarity with those people who have ...

Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep worked with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, the Swiss Agency for ...

Those most vulnerable to these climate disasters live in the poor and fragile nations that ring the Himalayas.

Days after a gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris buried much of the village of Blatten in canton Valais, the danger is ...

A deluge of millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down a mountain on Wednesday, engulfing the village of Blatten. The few houses that remained intact were later flooded ...

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

Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start to break apart. At the same time, the glaciers are shrinking and, as they do ...

In Blatten, Switzerland, the aftermath of a glacier avalanche is creating increasingly difficult conditions. Water, blocked ...

What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village?

Focus has now shifted to the safety of those living near the Lonza River, which the regional government warns could flood as ...