These massive glaciers carve out U-shaped valleys. When the glaciers melt and the rivers filling these valleys are cut off by this same glacial activity, a large loch is formed. A smaller loch is ...

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.

U.S. News Insider Tip: With ongoing construction along Glacier Point Road, drivers can wait up to 30 minutes during their drive to the lookout point. Pack snacks and drinks for the trip.

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 ...