Local authorities are urging residents in nearby villages to prepare for possible evacuation in case of emergency.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

A deluge of rock and ice careered down a mountain in the Swiss Alps, sending plumes of dust skyward near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution ...

One person is missing after a deluge of rock, mud and ice buried 90% of a Swiss mountain village, officials have said.It came ...