Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes.

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

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One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...

Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide ...

Blatten: what price for preserving Swiss mountain life? This content was published on Jun 11, 2025 Swiss debates on preserving Alpine life have intensified following the Blatten glacier collapse.

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 ...

Today, Friday, the Swiss Federal Council is expected to present its message regarding capital requirements for systemically important banks. For UBS, the content is likely to be less than pleasing.

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.

Dramatic before-and-after images show the sheer scale of devastation in the picturesque Alpine village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, 90 per cent of which was buried when the Birch Glacier ...

Maja Riniker, president of the House of Representatives, reserved her first words for the residents of Blatten at the opening of the summer parliamen. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.