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Two weeks after a huge landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of reconstruction ...
While the Chilkat Valley is not unique in facing landslides, the combination of steep slopes, heavy rainfall, aging ...
These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...
Birch Glacier above the Swiss village of Blatten broke off, causing a landslide that destroyed the village. A herd of cows got evacuated via helicopter for a ride of a lifetime to get to safety.
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
causing the landslide which also buried the nearby Lonza River bed, raising the possibility of dammed water flows. “There’s a risk that the situation could get worse,” Ganzer said ...
Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides — but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for ...
The search for a missing 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday because of unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.The ...
The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village ... Dramatic drone footage shows the moment the glacier collapsed. In Switzerland, the mountainside gave way Wednesday near the village of Blatten ...