Swiss glacier collapse buries most of village of Blatten (www.bbc.com)

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Climate change is causing the glaciers - frozen rivers of ice - to melt faster and faster, and the permafrost, often described as the glue that holds the high mountains together, is also thawing.

Local news has much more extensive footage

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

So the village was Blattened?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I was going to ask if it was too soon for "Flatten" jokes.

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