After the devastating landslide, Blatten in Valais should be standing again by 2029. Municipal president Matthias Bellwald ...

A collapsing glacier caused a mudslide that buried the Swiss town of Blatten earlier this year ... In 2024, melting glaciers ...

Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move away from the mountain villages at risk?

Almost 7,000 feet above sea level, the trail leading up to Morteratsch glacier gets a little longer every month.

Check dams set up on the water from the Lonza river flows over the mud and stone, after the formation of a lake by the last houses of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Saturday, May 31, 2025.

A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located ...

Swiss federal president Karin Keller-Sutter observes from a helicopter the damage caused by the catastrophic landslide destroying the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Friday, May 30, 2025.

GENEVA, Switzerland — 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 ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — 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 ...