Switzerland’s famed glaciers are increasingly resembling Swiss cheese, riddled with holes, as climate change visibly impacts these vital natural formations. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring ...

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The collapse of the glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. When the first signs of instability started to appear, the town was evacuated.

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.

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month. Summer Woolley, Alex Croft. Tuesday 03 June 2025 09:33 BST. Comments.

Along a closed road used as a landing strip for helicopters in Wiler, Switzerland, May 30, 2025. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP. Indeed, dramatic collapses have become more frequent in the Swiss Alps in ...

Geneva – A cascade of events in the Swiss Alps led to the dramatic collapse of the Birch glacier, wiping out Blatten village in the valley below, glaciologists and geoscientists said on Friday.