Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.

A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

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 ...

An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...

Focus has now shifted to the safety of those living near the Lonza River, which the regional government warns could flood as ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...