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A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists said on Friday. Experts ...

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The Swiss village wiped off the map by a glacier. Animations on Animations off. By Imogen Foulkes, BBC Geneva Correspondent, and the Visual Journalism team 31 May 2025 Europe.

The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide living under the shadow of fragile ice, particularly in Asia, experts say.

A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but leaving one missing. The disaster, attributed to climate change and rapid ...

Many Asian nations lack resources to monitor their vast glaciers to the same degree as the Swiss. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The glacier was below the 3,342-meter (10,965-foot) high Kleines Nesthorn peak. In the fortnight before its collapse, a series of falls from the mountain dumped three million cubic meters of rock ...