A deluge of ice, mud and rock crashed down a mountain on May 28, engulfing some 90% of the village of Switzerland’s Blatten village. Scientists have reportedly termed the Glacier collapse as a ...

Dirt for Saturday, May 31, 2025 And stay away from those sand tiger sharks  … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,301 of The Daily Dirt. 1. It’s safe to say most of us all know the ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start to break apart. At the same time, the glaciers are shrinking and, as they do ...

There's a new Scott Gambler prototype downhill bike racing the DH World Cup, and we got a detailed look at it and the hidden ...

Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides — but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human development.

A Swiss mountain village has been almost completely destroyed after a huge chunk of a glacier collapsed, burying it under ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...

The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...

Video shows the moment a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps, causing ice, mud and rock to bury most of the mountain town below. The town’s roughly 300 residents were evacuated a week ...

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month ...