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The Alps mountain range in Europe has seen its glaciers retreat in recent years due to warming that most scientists attribute ...
Video shows a huge cloud of ice and scree spewing over the Swiss village of Blatten on Wednesday, dwarfing tiny Alpine lodges ...
A massive avalanche triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier buried much of the Swiss village of Blatten under ice, mud and rocks. The even was equivalent in force to a magnitude 3.1 earthquake, ...
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The village of Blatten's mayor, Matthias Bellwald, said 'the unimaginable' had happened before promising that the village would make it through.
A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...
A massive glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps largely destroyed the village of Blatten, with one person missing, authorities said.
At around 3:30 pm local time, a huge collapse occurred on the Birch Glacier, emergency services in the Wallis region said.
At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...
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Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a nearby glacier was on the ...