Swiss glacier collapse renews focus on risks of climate change as glaciers retreat around the world
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The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses.
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Alpine village is largely destroyed after Swiss glacier collapse causes 'major catastrophe'
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Partial glacier collapse causes landslide that buries 90% of Swiss village
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Swiss glacier collapse renews focus on risks of climate change as glaciers retreat around the world
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.
On May 28, the small Alpine village of Blatten, Switzerland, was almost entirely buried under a massive landslide, following the collapse of a nearby glacier.
A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution.
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.
A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution.
Several Alpine villages are on high alert after a glacier collapse destroyed the village of Blatten, with a mass of debris increasing flood risk. Glaciers worldwide are increasingly at risk due to climate change.
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