Aerial footage showed flooded homes and debris scattered around a Swiss village after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a mountainside in the southern Lötschental valley. The landslide on Wednesday sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution.

The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide living under the shadow of fragile ice, particularly in Asia, experts say.

The New York Times reports that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the Alps are heating up at about nearly twice the global average rate. They also said that in 2022 and 2023, Swiss glaciers lost 10 percent of their water volume. The BBC warns that all of the Swiss glaciers could be gone this century.

The collapse of a glacier in the Swiss Alps this week has underscored the impacts of a warming world on the ice-packed parts of planet Earth. When the melting Birch Glacier on crumbled on Wednesday, it engulfed the picturesque village of Blatten in the country's

Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter reaffirmed on Friday the full support of the federal government for the residents of th

In Blatten, Switzerland, after a glacier avalanche, the situation is becoming increasingly difficult. Water blocked by the landslide threatens to flood additional towns. Key information The glacier avalanche destroyed part of the village of Blatten in Switzerland.

Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides— but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for these deadly, unpredictable disasters.The destructive landslide in the Swiss village of Blatten is the latest natural disaster to hit valley communities in the Alpine nation.