Switzerland: Flood risk after landslides | world News

A man remained missing after a huge landslide on Thursday, which surrounded a village in Southern Switzerland.The Birch Glacier was uprooted on Wednesday in the southern Wallis region of Switzerland, resulting in plums to the sky of rock and ice landslides.The landslide coated the entirety of a alpine village with mud. Last week, officials vacated the village as a precaution. The barrage destroyed Bleton’s Hemlet to a large extent, which was home for 300 people. State Councilor Stephen Ganjar told Radio Television Suisse that 90% of the villages were destroyed.Valace’s cantonal police said a discovery and rescue operation was going on for the missing 64 -year -old man, which included a drone with a thermal camera.Unsecured glacier for climate changeSwitzerland’s glacier has been severely affected by climate change.In the years of 2022 and 2023, they melted equally in decades from 1960 to 1990.Mathius Has, head of the glacier monitoring in Switzerland, pointed to the possible impact of climate change in loosening the rock mass in the permofrast zone, triggering the glacier collapse and subsequent landslides.“Unexpected things occur in places we have not seen for hundreds of years, perhaps due to climate change,” he told the Reuters.Increasing concern on blocking riverOfficials have declared an emergency situation as they monitors the position of the huge pile of the glacier, which blocks the Lonza River up to 2 kilometers (1.25 mi).“There is a serious risk of a snow jam that may flood the valley below,” military safety officer Antony Jacquod told the Keystone-ATS news agency. “We are going to try to assess its dimensions.”Due to the very unstable near the region, the authorities indicated that an evaluation would be done during the late afternoon from the nearby village Ferraden.As a precaution, 16 people were evacuated from two villages below the disaster area late on Wednesday night.An artificial dam has been emptied to get water pushed back from the ice, earth and debris wall. Whether the water was to flow from the dam, the authorities would need to consider emptying the valley.“Deposit … is not very stable, and debris flows within deposits are possible [which] Any intervention in the disaster sector makes it impossible for that time, “the cantonal authorities said. He said that both sides of the valley are at risk.Surprised by the scale of destructionMartin Hengen, a resident of Blaton, told Reuters that he was still trying to do the process what happened and did not want to talk to others in the village. “Most are calm,” Henzen said, “but they are clearly affected.”Hengen said that the residents had prepared for any natural disaster, but “not for this scenario,” referring to the scale of destruction.1 million cubic meters (35 million cubic feet) can accumulate daily in water, resulting in the debris to reach the banks of the river, and the buildings coming out of landslides are now flooding.Authorities have excluded livestock from the area.“Right now,” Jonas Jitzinner said, “An officer in the neighboring Willer,” The shock is so deep that no one can think about it yet. “