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This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes and Anna van den Broek (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu, a.j.vandenbroek@uu.nl), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others.  by Grace Nield, Assistant Professor (Research) – Royal Society University Research Fellow at Durham University. Email: grace.a.nield@durham.ac ...[Read More]

Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

In the morning of May 28, 2025, the picturesque Swiss alpine village of Blatten sat quiet and serene in the Lötschen Valley. Exceptionally quiet, in fact, as the village was evacuated on May 19th after a local Natural Hazards expert spotted a worrisome change in a local mountain looming about the village, the Kleines Nesthorn: it was collapsing faster.  The Kleines Nesthorn is a 3,341-meter peak w ...[Read More]