Swissinfo has published a very nice article highlighting the growing landslide risk in Switzerland. For example, in the canton of Graubünden (which is the focus of the article) alone, 17,000 ...

While the Chilkat Valley is not unique in facing landslides, the combination of steep slopes, heavy rainfall, aging ...

Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley ... I have been blogging about the evolving situation on the slopes above Blatten in Switzerland. I documented that attention slowly transitioned ...

The Swiss village of Blatten, which was decimated by a landslide, is to be rebuilt in three to five years, the municipal ...

Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.

For analysts at Fitch Ratings, the recent demolition of a Swiss village by a glacier is fresh proof that climate change is ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

A river in the Swiss Alps, which was dammed by a landslide that buried much of ... thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village.

Oct. 17, 2024 — Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and landslides are commonly prefaced by the phrase, 'not if, but when.' This precarious reality is now a bit more ...

Glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini says that while it is too early to know whether climate change was behind this avalanche, ...

Communities across Asia's Himalayan Hindu Kush region face heightened disaster risks this monsoon season with temperatures ...