Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

Its 300 residents had been evacuated earlier in May after part of the mountain behind the Birch Glacier began to crumble ... further along the Lonza Valley, to prepare for possible evacuation ...

Rescue workers and the army have been on site searching for a missing man, clearing debris and air lifting sheep out of the valley ... mountain behind the Birch Glacier began to crumble.

The danger of flooding and further erosion remains high around the Alpine village of Blatten, which saw 90 per cent of the town destroyed on Wednesday when the Birch glacier partially collapsed.

A glacier collapse in Switzerland unleashed a torrent of ice, rock, and mud that buried the Alpine village of Blatten.

In Switzerland, the mountainside gave way Wednesday near the village of Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, because the rock face above the Birch Glacier had become unstable when ...

On the right, a photo captures the devastation caused by the collapse of a glacier, which swept down the valley floor on May 28 and demolished the majority of the village. (Cyril Zingaro and Jean ...

GENEVA (AP) — A 64-year-old man remained missing Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down ... in the southern Lötschental valley, partially submerged homes and ...