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Flooding fears after glacier collapse buries picturesque Swiss village under mud and rock

A picturesque Swiss village has been nearly entirely destroyed by a collapsing glacier, leaving one person missing amid a deluge of ice, mud and rock. Dramatic before-and-after images show the sheer ...
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All glaciers in the Alps will disappear – the irreversible transformation of Europe’s mountains

On 14 May 2025, a large rockfall from Kleines Nesthorn, near the 3934m summit of the Bietschhorn in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, fell onto the Birch Glacier. It triggered a flow of debris into ...