The disaster has been captured in stark detail by the OLI-2 instrument on Landsat 9. The images reveal a landscape ...

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.

A 64-year-old man is missing after the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed by a 'gigantic landslide' following a ...

Swiss insurers on Tuesday put the damage caused by last month's glacier collapse, which largely destroyed the Alpine village of Blatten, at 320 million Swiss francs ($393 million). To "repair the ...

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 ...

But he said the glacier's total collapse was not predicted. Sponsor Message In a press release on Thursday, the Valais local government said the Birch Glacier had collapsed in near-entirety above ...

Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on May 28. After a few days of ominous advances, coupled with rockslides ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

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.

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

A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but leaving one missing. The disa ...