Disaster with announcement
At Kleiner Nesthorn, at an altitude of around 3000 meters, debris and ice masses slide and don't leave much of the village of Blatten. Source: Moment RF / Michele D'Amico supersky77/Getty Images
The consequences of climate change and global warming have rarely been more obvious than a huge mountain slide this week in the picturesque canton of Valais in Switzerland. Down in the Lötschental, the village of Blatten was almost completely buried under a meter-high rubble heap. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the Lötsch itself, which flows through the valley, was dammed up by rocks and ice masses and the water flooded the rest of the village. An all-encompassing disaster!
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