The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

According to the head of the Valais Natural Hazards Office, the cone of debris from the landslide in Blatten is over 100 ...

Swiss Solidarity’s provisional donation amount for the landslide area was around CHF4.3 million ($5.2 million).

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On May 28 a huge chunk of a glacier in the southern Swiss Alps collapsed, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

Switzerland is a long way from Manitoba. Switzerland has alpine meadows and glaciers and mountains — Manitoba does not. Manitoba has broad swathes of flatland prairie; Switzerland does not. Check ...

There are strong theories on the causes, and to what degree it is linked to climate change — but these are yet to be ...

Those most vulnerable to these climate disasters live in the poor and fragile nations that ring the Himalayas.

Only seven years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected the world wouldn’t heat beyond 1.5 C ...

A lake created by glacial debris after a dramatic collapse in the Swiss Alps is now beginning to drain, officials confirmed ...

In all scenarios, glaciers lose mass rapidly over decades and then continue to melt at a slower pace for centuries — even ...