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Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...
While the Chilkat Valley is not unique in facing landslides, the combination of steep slopes, heavy rainfall, aging ...
These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...
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.
A river in the Swiss Alps, which was dammed by a landslide that buried much of the village of Blatten, is now flowing through the debris, authorities have said.A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from ...
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...
A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred ... "There is a serious risk of an ice jam that could flood the valley below," Antoine Jacquod, a military ...
In Blatten, Switzerland, after a glacier avalanche, the situation is becoming increasingly difficult. Water blocked by the landslide threatens to flood additional towns. Key information The glacier ...
causing the landslide which also buried the nearby Lonza River bed, raising the possibility of dammed water flows. “There’s a risk that the situation could get worse,” Ganzer said ...