A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An official stated that 90% of the village of Blatten, with an estimated ...

Odile Meylan ( 24Heures) won the main prize in the Swiss Stories category with “Le parc Jorat, la plus grande Forêt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This afternoon, a massive avalanche of ice, mud, and rock buried the picturesque Swiss village of Blatten. It was triggered when a ...

BLATTEN, Switzerland (AP) — When a devastating landslide all but swallowed his Swiss village and toppled his three-generation family-owned hotel in May, Lukas Kalbermatten was overwhelmed by a sense ...

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of reconstruction is picking up, but huge challenges remain. A ...

The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed, leaving several homes fully flattened after a huge section of a glacier fell down onto the valley floor. Thankfully, the village had been ...

A landslide near Blatten, Switzerland submerged an entire village in the Swiss Alps, leaving most of the homes and buildings under a mass of brown sludge. It happened after a large chunk of the Birch ...

GENEVA — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised worries about ...

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, a large portion of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland partially collapsed and released a chunk of ice that set off an enormous landslide, largely burying the village of ...

May 21 (UPI) --Cows stranded in a Swiss village under threat of rockslide were airlifted to safety via helicopter. The Alpine village of Blatten, in southern Switzerland's Loetschental valley, was ...