We don’t live in an easy landscape.” As climate change leads to collapsing glaciers and mudslides, some in Switzerland ...

A small village in the Swiss Alps has been engulfed by ice, mud, and rock in a rare natural disaster that points to an uncertain future as unstable mountainous glaciers can break apart in destructive ...

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The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed, leaving several homes fully flattened after a huge section of a glacier fell down onto the valley floor. Thankfully, the village had been ...

The study compares two recent events: the 2021 Chamoli disaster in the Indian Himalayas, which killed more than 200 people, and the 2025 ice and rock avalanche in Blatten, Switzerland, which buried ...