The landslide that occurred in Blatten in the canton of Valais at the end of May 2025 and the one in the village of Brienz in ...

Scientists tracking the loss of glaciers in the Swiss Alps uncovered an alarming development regarding their disappearance.

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

A new 3D simulation tool developed by ETH and SLF researchers now allows for significantly more accurate predictions of ...

Kandersteg boosts preparedness as rockslide threats rise Several systems track climate impact on Alpine permafrost Blatten losses show need for effective disaster management KANDERSTEG ...

Dozens of people are being evacuated by helicopter in Austria after a mudslide covered homes and mountain huts in the ...

In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg, officials have been closely monitoring a deteriorating mountain peak that towers above its picturesque homes and hotels, after a glacier collapse and massive ...

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

Sometimes climate change is hard to visualise, but not the disaster that struck the Swiss alpine village of Blatten on May 28. In the middle of the afternoon a glacier that had stood above the ...

There has been a huge outpouring of solidarity in Switzerland for the people of Blatten. Yet debate around the cost of protecting mountain villages h ...

A river in the Swiss Alps, which was dammed by a landslide that buried much of the village of Blatten, is now flowing through the debris, authorities have said. A huge mass of rock, ice and mud ...