The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

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

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

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

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 ...

A village in Switzerland was buried in a recent glacier collapse, according to Swiss officials. “Almost the entire Birch ...

The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and ...