Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.

Birch Glacier above the Swiss village of Blatten broke off, causing a landslide that destroyed the village. A herd of cows got evacuated via helicopter for a ride of a lifetime to get to safety.

The residents of two hamlets in Blatten, Switzerland, were able to visit their homes following a landslide that devasted the ...

A river in the Swiss Alps, which was dammed by a landslide that buried much of ... thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village.

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

Glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini says that while it is too early to know whether climate change was behind this avalanche, ...

Swissinfo has published a very nice article highlighting the growing landslide risk in Switzerland. For example, in the canton of Graubünden (which is the focus of the article) alone, 17,000 ...

I don't think I'd be able to hold onto the handle knowing what was coming at the end of my swing into the abyss.

Kolkata, forsaken city of joy provides adventure junkies with the best hiking trails in Eastern India. With its flat terrain ...

Extreme weather events have become more frequent across the world and barely anyone is spared. While Mumbai was dealing with ...

Leveraging satellite imagery, Earth observation is a prime example of where the geospatial field intersects with the space ...

Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on ...