MJ Muse<p>In Switzerland, after a glacier collapsed onto Blatten, fear is gripping the mountains<br>The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in the Swiss Alps</p><p> It took less than 40 seconds for the Birch Glacier, at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, May 28, to bring an end to the 592 years of existence of the village of Blatten. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SwissAlps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SwissAlps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MeltingGlaciers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MeltingGlaciers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/globalwarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globalwarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/blattendisaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blattendisaster</span></a> <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/06/03/in-switzerland-after-a-glacier-collapsed-onto-blatten-fear-is-gripping-the-mountains_6741946_114.html#" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lemonde.fr/en/environment/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/2025/06/03/in-switzerland-after-a-glacier-collapsed-onto-blatten-fear-is-gripping-the-mountains_6741946_114.html#</span></a></p>