Around thirty residents were able to return to their homes following a landslide from the Birch glacier that destroyed nearby homes in the Blatten region. Some homes in nearby Ferden, Kippel and Wiler ...

A Swiss charity, which covers the uninsured damage of natural disasters, is supporting the landslide-devasted villages of ...

Zurich, Helvetia and others have so far responded to increasing severe weather risks with premium increases. But a pain ...

Please stop sending clothes, but give us money. That’s the message from the authorities in the devasted village of Blatten.

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

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

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

About 17,000 residents of Manitoba in central Canada have been evacuated because of nearly two dozen active wildfires. Nearly ...

Celebrated actor Valerie Mahaffey is dead at age 71 after battling cancer. Her publicist said Mahaffey died Friday in Los ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly completely destroyed the mountain village of Blatten. A ...