Alpine communities face uncertain future after 2025 glacier collapse

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Careful slope monitoring prevented mass casualties in the landslide at Blatten, Switzerland, this year, but mountain communities may face a growing risk of disasters In May, the village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps was destroyed when a huge chunk of a glacier collapsed, but thanks to careful monitoring, almost all of its residents were saved. The first sign of an impending disaster appeared on 14 May, when an official observer for Switzerland’s snow avalanche warning service reported a small rockfall above the village. These observers have other full-time jobs in the area, but are trained to keep an eye on the slopes. The service then took a look at images from a camera installed on the glacier above the village after snow avalanches in the 1990s. “In those photos, they could see changes on the ridge on the mountain,” says Mylène Jacquemart at ETH Zurich in
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