A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that buried most of a mountain village that had been evacuated due to the risk of a rockslide, ...

The study compares two recent events: the 2021 Chamoli disaster in the Indian Himalayas, which killed more than 200 people, and the 2025 ice and rock avalanche in Blatten, Switzerland, which buried ...