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The centuries-old village of Blatten was buried under three million cubic meters of gravel and mud. Melting permafrost is leading to increasingly frequent landslides in the Alps.
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der Standard DEThe community asks to refrain from private donations in kind. One person is still missing
The buried village has received donations of more than 17 million Swiss francs so far. Currently, the amount of damage is estimated at up to one billion Swiss francs.
Researchers predicted the collapse of Blatten 2022. Other places were also classified as vulnerable. Even more vulnerable than the village in the Lötschental.
CHRONIQUE. Our columnist Alexis Favre, a journalist at Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), looks back at Blatten's drama and the difficulty of talking about the climate and natural disasters, between tinnitus and denialWorking for a public service media involves exposing himself to criticism. It is true when one holds the antenna, even truer when the subjects are sensitive, and triple true at the time of the debate that opens, about what we are costi…
A "new Blatten" in 2030. This is the ambition carried by Matthias Bellwald, the president of the Valais municipality engulfed by ...
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