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A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...
Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides — but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for these deadly, unpredictable disasters. The destructive landslide in the ...
Switzerland’s bid for a US trade deal risks sparking a showdown with one political force at least as feisty as US President Donald Trump: its own farmers. A country whose lush Alpine pastures ...
And this is what actually happened," Matthias Huss, the director of Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (GLAMOS), told AFP. "The glacier accelerated strongly in response to this additional loading ...
Top officials with the Trump administration are expected to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this week in Switzerland, marking the first major talks between the two countries since ...
ZURICH (Reuters) -Microsoft will invest $400 million in Switzerland, the company said on Monday, with the money going towards developing its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
In a post to his Instagram page, Tatar announced that he has signed a two-year deal with EV Zug of Switzerland’s National League. Tatar played 74 games with the Devils this past season ...
The collapse of a massive glacier in southern Switzerland has triggered the risk of flooding from an ice jam, which blocked the Lonza River, Swiss authorities said Thursday. The Birch Glacier ...
Corippo, located in the scenic Verzasca Valley, was once on the verge of becoming a ghost town with only nine elderly residents remaining. But it underwent a revitalization in 2022 through the ...
Swiss glaciologists have repeatedly expressed concerns about a thaw in recent years, attributed in large part to global warming, that has accelerated the retreat of glaciers in Switzerland.
Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland this week to discuss trade amid a standoff between ...
On Wednesday the Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Valais (Wallis) region collapsed, sending tons of rock, ice and scree hurtling down the mountain slope and into the valley below.