The village of Blatten, Switzerland, was almost entirely wiped out by a landslide resulting from glacier collapse on Wednesday. The residents and most livestock had already been evacuated, but at ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers. How glaciers ...

"Now this worst-case scenario has happened. That means the 3 million cubic meters of rock that fell onto the glacier have all come down with the glacier. And that is very, very rare. We couldn't find ...