On Wednesday, this reality struck the Alpine village of Blatten with devastating force when a massive section of the Birch ...

A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier wiped the village of Blatten off the map. DW spoke to locals and experts ...

Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris ...

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, ...

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

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

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