Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why glaciologists believe the Birch Glacier collapsed, burying a nearby Swiss town A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried ...

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, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small village in the Swiss Alps has been engulfed by ice, mud, and rock in a rare natural disaster that points to an uncertain ...

A landslide near Blatten, Switzerland submerged an entire village in the Swiss Alps, leaving most of the homes and buildings under a mass of brown sludge. It happened after a large chunk of the Birch ...

On 14 May 2025, a large rockfall from Kleines Nesthorn, near the 3934m summit of the Bietschhorn in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, fell onto the Birch Glacier. It triggered a flow of debris into ...

The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

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. How glaciers ...

The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday due to unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before. The landslide sent ...

RHÔNE GLACIER, Switzerland — On a hotel veranda overlooking Lake Lucerne, Barbara Achrainer sips a latte and, with a sigh, peers at sightseers boarding a tour boat. It's a warm summer afternoon and ...