{"id":30197,"date":"2025-06-02T13:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swiss-glacier-collapse-how-the-village-of-blatten-was-wiped-off-the-map\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:57:26","slug":"swiss-glacier-collapse-how-the-village-of-blatten-was-wiped-off-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swiss-glacier-collapse-how-the-village-of-blatten-was-wiped-off-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss glacier collapse: How the village of Blatten was wiped off the map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sm-text__text\">\u201cI was speechless,\u201d said Matthias Huss, a leading glacier specialist at Zurich\u2019s Federal Institute of Technology. \u201cIt was the worst case that could happen.\u201d Mr Huss had been aware of the situation in Blatten; he and his team check Switzerland\u2019s glaciers all year round, and their annual reports show a clear, accelerated thaw, linked to global warming.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-c7f929de-96a9-45e5-b1bb-31de82fce72d\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI was speechless,\u201d said Matthias Huss, a leading glacier specialist at Zurich\u2019s Federal Institute of Technology. \u201cIt was the worst case that could happen.\u201d Mr Huss had been aware of the situation in Blatten; he and his team check Switzerland\u2019s glaciers all year round, and their annual reports show a clear, accelerated thaw, linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[10351,304,10350,406,4753,3064,4137],"class_list":["post-30197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-blatten","tag-collapse","tag-glacier","tag-map","tag-swiss","tag-village","tag-wiped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30199,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30197\/revisions\/30199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}