In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.

After a May avalanche in Blatten, Switzerland, experts took notice of an unusual phenomenon affecting the nation's glaciers ...

Scientists tracking the glaciers are drilling holes to gain further insights, and they have uncovered an alarming detail.

Blatten is located in the Loetschental valley in the canton of Valais. "We've lost our village," Blatten Mayor Matthias Bellwald said at a news conference, per Reuters.

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock after what scientists suspect is a dramatic display of the impact of climate change on mountain communities.

The landslide that occurred in Blatten in the canton of Valais at the end of May 2025 and the one in the village of Brienz in Graubünden in June 2023 remind us of the potential for landslide hazards ...

Large chunk of glacier breaks off, burying 90% of Swiss village 01:05. Geneva — The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday due to unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice ...

This photograph shows the small village of Blatten, near the Bietschhorn mountain of the Swiss Alps, destroyed by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed and was swallowed up by ...

Airlifting cattle is commonplace in the Alps when farmers are facing dire circumstances. In 2023, the village of Brienz, Switzerland, narrowly averted a similar fate as Blatten’s when a portion ...

For days, the inhabitants of Blatten, a village in the Swiss Alps, had been warned by geologists that an unstable glacier high above their homes could collapse. On Wednesday afternoon, days after ...

The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28. By. Becca Longmire. Becca Longmire. Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.