As a principal engineer for the county’s Public Works Department, Klippel’s job is to try to stop catastrophic flows of mud, debris and boulders that could rush into fire-stricken ...

Despite dry, hot days and worsening drought conditions, local communities continue to face threats of debris and mud flows and could for several years. That's the message authorities want to get ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) and the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) have warned residents ...

Nearly six months after wildfires erupted in Southern California, closing the Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles and ...

A massive landslide thundered down a mountainside in Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying a village and burying homes under ...

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

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a nearby glacier was on the ...

The Valais local government said the damage is "considerable," with one person missing and homes under debris.

Before-and-after photos captured the massive scale and destruction left behind after a glacier crashed down a Swiss ...