{"id":248766,"date":"2025-05-31T09:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/river-trapped-behind-glacial-debris-in-swiss-alps-threatens-flooding-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:04:46","slug":"river-trapped-behind-glacial-debris-in-swiss-alps-threatens-flooding-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/river-trapped-behind-glacial-debris-in-swiss-alps-threatens-flooding-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"River trapped behind glacial debris in Swiss Alps threatens flooding | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/HovlmA2vfyQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"River trapped behind glacial debris in Swiss Alps threatens flooding | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HovlmA2vfyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Residents in the Swiss Alps appear to have been spared further catastrophe as water trapped behind glacial debris, which was threatening to flood a valley below, appears to be trickling away slowly.<br \/>\nEarlier this week, millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock flattened the village of Blatten. It had already been evacuated, but one person remains missing. Officials warned that fresh evacuations may be necessary as the mass was blocking a river and authorities feared it could trigger a flood or mudslides.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Glacial debris traps water in Swiss Alps<br \/>\n00:37 DW speaks with Christoph Hegg, environmental expert at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research<\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>#SwissAlps #Landslide #ClimateChange<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in the Swiss Alps appear to have been spared further catastrophe as water trapped behind glacial debris, which was threatening to flood a valley below, appears to be trickling away slowly. Earlier this week, millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock flattened the village of Blatten. It had already been evacuated, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":248767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[145262,129486,132383],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-248766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-alps","tag-residents","tag-swiss"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>River trapped behind glacial debris in Swiss Alps threatens flooding | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch River trapped behind glacial debris in Swiss Alps threatens flooding | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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