Its first full-time inhabitant was Elder Jimmie Hammon, “an itinerant preacher of the Gospel who shared the island with a great flock of chickens,” according to a 2009 account in the North East ...

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

In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly completely destroyed the mountain village of Blatten. A ...

The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide ...