{"id":23796,"date":"2026-03-03T09:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/23796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:23:06","slug":"switzerlands-crumbling-giants-the-alpine-towns-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/23796\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland&#8217;s Crumbling Giants: The alpine towns under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Switzerland&#8217;s iconic mountains are truly one of the wonders of the world, famous for their dramatic snow-capped peaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But the Swiss Alps are under threat, and in turn putting centuries old villages below them in grave danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Alps are warming at twice the global average, placing them on Europe&#8217;s frontline of climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Dozens of towns have been damaged, and one completely destroyed in catastrophic landslides.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Foreign Correspondent travels through the Alps and up the glaciers with reporter Naomi Selvaratnam to see the problem first hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The growing danger and mounting costs are producing climate refugees in one of the richest nations on earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The question now for Swiss authorities is who gets to stay in the mountains, and at what cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland&#8217;s iconic mountains are truly one of the wonders of the world, famous for their dramatic snow-capped peaks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,799,15151,15154,4308,15153,15152,6943,17,3091],"class_list":{"0":"post-23796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-kandersteg","11":"tag-permafrost","12":"tag-rhone-glacier","13":"tag-rock-falls","14":"tag-spitzer-stein","15":"tag-swiss-alps","16":"tag-switzerland","17":"tag-the-alps"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}