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There are also concerns the debris from the glacier could cause the River Lonza flood other villages.A man remains missing on Thursday following a massive landslide that engulfed a village in southern ...
The Graubünden village of Brienz in eastern Switzerland was closed again on Monday due to the risk of landslides. Rock masses ...
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 Swiss mountainside the day before.
GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide ... the risk to other villages appears very low. Days before most of the glacier collapsed, authorities had ordered the evacuation of about 300 ...
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village ... But in almost every instance, climate change is playing a role. In Switzerland, the mountainside gave way Wednesday near the village of ...
Steep slopes, unstable terrain and exposure to high rainfall or permafrost melt put mountain regions more at risk of landslides and avalanches. For valley communities in Switzerland, the potential ...
A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred ... "There is a serious risk of an ice jam that could flood the valley below," Antoine Jacquod, a military ...
A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...