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The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier wiped the village of Blatten off the map. DW spoke to locals and experts ...
Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them to do that are not available to most countries.
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.
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further ...
An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...
A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...
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 ...
The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human development.