A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a ...

The alarming rate at which planet earth is warming is playing havoc with the once pristine natural environments such as the ...

The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide ...

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

Switzerland ranked the world's most competitive country, glacier collapse to cost 320 million francs and more news in our ...

Days before most of the glacier collapsed, authorities had ordered the evacuation of about 300 people, as well as livestock, from Blatten. Switzerland's president said on Friday that the government ...

The landslide in Blatten VS and the resulting floods caused damage totalling CHF 320 million. Around CHF 260 million of this ...

There has been a huge outpouring of solidarity in Switzerland for the people of Blatten. Yet debate around the cost of ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

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