One year after the destruction of the small Swiss village of Blatten in a massive landslide, reconstruction efforts are in full swing. Farmers from Blatten, located in the Lötschental valley in the ...

We don’t live in an easy landscape.” As climate change leads to collapsing glaciers and mudslides, some in Switzerland ...

By Marleen Kaesebier, Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani WILER, Switzerland, May 26 (Reuters) - Hotel Momentum stands above ...

One year after the tragedy in the Lötschental (VS), insurance responded thanks to a Pool for natural disaster damages and the principle of double solidarity.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A devastating May landslide in Swiss Alps village Blatten destroyed more than 90% of homes and buildings, killing ...

A year ago a collapsing glacier buried and destroyed large parts of the village of Blatten in the Lötschental valley in ...

Almost a year after the Blatten disaster, new observations are keeping the authorities in the Lötschental busy. This time, the focus is on the Oigschtchummung glacier. According to a statement from ...

BLATTEN, Switzerland — 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 of ...

GENEVA (AP) — 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 ...