Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge.

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

GENEVA — A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that ...

The landlocked Alpine country has the most glaciers of any country in Europe, and saw 4% of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023. That was the second-biggest decline in a single year after a ...

The landlocked Alpine country has the most glaciers of any country in Europe, and saw 4% of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023. That was the second-biggest decline in a single year after a ...

Swiss glacier collapses, destroying 90% of an Alpine village. Before-and-after photos captured the massive scale and destruction left behind after a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside.

Swiss glacier collapses, destroying 90% of an Alpine village. Before-and-after photos captured the massive scale and destruction left behind after a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside.

Large chunk of glacier breaks off, burying 90% of Swiss village 01:05. Geneva — The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday due to unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice ...

Swiss glacier collapses, destroying 90% of an Alpine village. Before-and-after photos captured the massive scale and destruction left behind after a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside.

The landlocked Alpine country has the most glaciers of any country in Europe, and saw 4% of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023. That was the second-biggest decline in a single year after a ...