In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg, officials have been closely monitoring a deteriorating mountain peak that towers ...

In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.

+ Landslide threatened Swiss village of Brienz faces many more evacuations Another 1.2 million cubic metres at risk of falling A further 1.2 million cubic metres of rock are also in motion.

Over 5,000 of these are residential properties. Right on cue, another significant landslide crisis has developed in Switzerland, this time in in the upper Val de Bagnes in Valais.

+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Probably the best-known case of high landslide risk is currently in Brienz in canton Bern. Around 80 residents of the village in the ...

Switzerland is an early warning success story and the country uses a broad range of technologies and methods to assess the risks. This includes terrain mapping and continuous monitoring of rainfall, ...

A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised ...

Europe News: A massive landslide has destroyed the Alpine village of Blatten in southern Switzerland, leaving a man missing and raising concerns about potential flooding due to glacier debris ...

Switzerland's glaciers have been severely affected by climate change. In the years 2022 and 2023, they melted just as much as they had in the decades from 1960 through 1990.

Reuters Switzerland glacier collapse disaster has triggered massive concern as the Birch Glacier landslide 2025 buried much of Blatten, an Alpine village in Switzerland. With the Swiss Alps glacier ...