These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable — and the world is unprepared.

After a large portion of the Birch Glacier collapsed and caused a catastrophic avalanche, a quiet Swiss village amid the Alps was destroyed. Nestled in the Lötschental valley of southern Switzerland, ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a ...

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The shocking video showed the moment part of a huge glacier smashed through a village after it raced down a mountainside in Switzerland - one person has been reported as missing ...

Emergency managers had been observing increased glacier melt at Birch Glacier ... Bott/Keystone via AP The permanently frozen soil is the "glue" that keeps the mountain rock stable, but as ...

The team compared soil samples from vicuña latrines with nearby glacial soils untouched by animals. What they found was staggering. Soils altered by vicuñas had 62% organic matter. Just a few ...

The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

A massive glacier collapse in Switzerland destroyed ... shown by national broadcaster SRF showed a vast plain of mud and soil completely covering part of the village and the river running through ...

Officials said millions of cubic metres of rock and soil have tumbled down since Blatten was first evacuated this month when part of the mountain behind the glacier began to crumble, sparking ...

Officials said millions of cubic metres of rock and soil have tumbled down since Blatten was first evacuated this month when part of the mountain behind the glacier began to crumble, sparking ...

Mud and Rock Bury Swiss Village After Glacier Collapse, One Person Missing By Olivia Le Poidevin and Dave Graham GENEVA (Reuters) -A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on ...