A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the ...

A lake of water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland ...

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

Massive glacier collapse in Blatten, Switzerland, causes debris blockage and raises serious flood risks in the Lonza valley.

An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound (318-kilogram) boulder for three hours survived the ...

A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but ...

A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland, destroying much of the village ...

Switzerland is a long way from Manitoba. Switzerland has alpine meadows and glaciers and mountains — Manitoba does not.

Rescuers found Kell Morris with hypothermia, wavering in and out of consciousness, face first in a creek as his wife held his head out of the water.