Tourism companies in the Lötschental in Canton Valais are getting creative as visitor numbers have plummeted following the ...

A new 3D simulation tool accurately predicts alpine landslides and avalanches, marking a breakthrough in mountain hazard ...

Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of reconstruction is picking up, but hu ...

Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley ...

Thirty residents return home following a landslide that destroyed houses in the Blatten region.

In the Swiss Alpine imagination, already rich with legends, this Lötschental valley, in the southern canton of Valais, occupies a special place − a sort of original, Edenic sanctuary.

According to the authorities in canton Valais, the danger in the landslide area in the Lötschental valley remains very high on Sunday.

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

Following the dramatic rock fall and glacier collapse on Wednesday in the Swiss Lötschental valley, officials said on Saturday that the situation had eased.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

New terrifying satellite images have revealed how a tiny Swiss village was completely wiped out by a massive glacier collapse. The remote Alpine village of Blatten was flattened after an avalanche ...

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge. Regional ...