The residents of two hamlets in Blatten, Switzerland, were able to visit their homes following a landslide that devasted the ...

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

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

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

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

A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village. Buildings that weren't buried ...

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

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month ...

Residents survive, but life in the Swiss Alps village of Blatten is forever changed, erasing centuries of tradition ...

In the Swiss Alpine imagination, already rich with legends, this Lötschental valley, in the southern canton of Valais, occupies a special place − a sort of original, Edenic sanctuary.

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...

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. Regional ...