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Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
The Swiss government is proposing to give 5 million francs ($6 million) to the Alpine village of Blatten that was destroyed ...
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier ...
At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
Everything we know about the Blatten glacier collapse in Switzerland - The village was thankfully evacuated a few days ...
A Swiss Alpine village has been buried by a massive debris field after a glacier collapsed on a nearby mountain. Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock ...
A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but ...
The fact that only one person is missing after the huge glacier collapse that engulfed the Swiss mountain village of Blatten ...
A massive chunk of the Birch Glacier collapsed into the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten, burying 90% of it under ice, mud, ...