A Swiss village has all but been wiped off the map after a glacier collapsed, burying Blatten in dirt and debris. The massive glacier detached Wednesday and plunged down a mountainside upon the 300-person village covering almost all of it,

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution.

Climate change is making mountain collapses, such as the recent glacier collapse in Switzerland, as well as other hazards like rockfalls and landslides, more frequent, according to a climate expert at the German Alpine Club "The increase in these alpine hazards is a clear consequence of human-induced climate change,

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps, sending plumes of dust skyward near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution.