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Sustainable Switch Climate Focus: Swiss village destroyed by glacier collapse
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A Swiss village is buried after a glacier collapses in the Alps
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
Alpine village is largely destroyed when a Swiss glacier collapses
A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...
Rescue mission resumes after glacier destroys Swiss village
A rescue mission resumed on Monday (June 2) to find a missing 64-year-old man in Blatten after a mass of glacial debris ...
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Swiss glacier collapse could cost huge sums: insurers
The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...
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A river dammed by a huge Swiss landslide is flowing again. That's a relief to authorities
Authorities say 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 worries ...
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Glacier avalanche devastates Swiss village, nearby towns on alert
In Blatten, Switzerland, the aftermath of a glacier avalanche is creating increasingly difficult conditions. Water, blocked ...