A new 3D simulation tool developed by ETH and SLF researchers now allows for significantly more accurate predictions of complex alpine mass movements, supporting alpine risk management.

According to an initial estimate, the landslide in Blatten in Valais will cost insurers around 320 million Swiss francs. The people affected have been promised rapid and unbureaucratic support. The ...

A view on June 6 of the debris cone - millions of tonnes of rock, ice and other debris - that engulfed the mountain village of Blatten in the Lötschental valley after a glacier collapsed on May ...

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

The village, situated in the Lötschental Valley of southern Switzerland, now lies almost entirely beneath a thick, sludgy mass that tore down the mountainside with unstoppable momentum.

In the Swiss Alpine imagination, already rich with legends, this Lötschental valley, in the southern canton of Valais, occupies a special place − a sort of original, Edenic sanctuary.

According to the authorities in canton Valais, the danger in the landslide area in the Lötschental valley remains very high on Sunday.

Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley ...

Following the dramatic rock fall and glacier collapse on Wednesday in the Swiss Lötschental valley, officials said on Saturday that the situation had eased.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge. Regional ...

Satellite images now show how Blatten and the entire Lötschental valley have changed as a result of the landslide. And make the extent of the natural disaster clear.