Zurich, Helvetia and others have so far responded to increasing severe weather risks with premium increases. But a pain ...

Strong show of solidarity with the people of Blatten and mounting pressure on Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis.

The Swiss Alps are rapidly becoming a symbol of climate catastrophe, as rising global temperatures turn once-stable glaciers ...

As climate change accelerates, the World Meteorological Organisation is calling for more investment in monitoring and ...

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

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

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The collapse of a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps buried and partially destroyed Blatten, a centuries-old village.

Those most vulnerable to these climate disasters live in the poor and fragile nations that ring the Himalayas.

A deluge of millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down a mountain on Wednesday, engulfing the village of Blatten. The few houses that remained intact were later flooded ...

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