After the devastating landslide, Blatten in Valais should be standing again by 2029. Municipal president Matthias Bellwald ...

Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move ...

Check dams set up on the water from the Lonza river flows over the mud and stone, after the formation of a lake by the last houses of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Saturday, May 31, 2025.

A large avalanche with a mixture of ice, rock, snow and water reach the valley floor is pictured in Wiler after the Birch glacier collapsing above Blatten, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 28, 2025.

Warning signs of the landslide that wiped out the village in May were visible from space years before, the ESA has found.

Blatten, Switzerland, was deluged and engulfed by ice, mud, and rock after Birch Glacier collapsed in Bietschhorn mountains. Reports indicated that 90% of the evacuated village had been destroyed.

A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that ...