The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

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

A massive glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps has devastated the village of Blatten, with millions of cubic meters of ice and ...

An avalanche of mud, ice, and rock forced residents of a picturesque Swiss village to evacuate before it buried around 90% of ...

Climbers alerted local authorities after finding abandoned skis near the summit of Rimpfischhorn on Saturday. A helicopter ...

Experts were concerned that the debris was blocking a nearby river, causing a new lake to form and posing a flood risk ...

but their bodies were believed to be buried by 40-100 feet of avalanche debris, according to beacon signals found by the guides. Due to the immense depth of the avalanche debris, and increasing ...