{"id":339164,"date":"2025-06-02T17:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=339164"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T08:46:52","slug":"birch-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/birch-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Birch Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Recently, a massive portion of the Birch Glacier broke off, causing extensive destruction to an Alpine village in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Birch Glacier<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Birch Glacier<\/strong> is situated in the <strong>Lotschental Valley<\/strong> in <strong>northern Switzerland<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The glacier lies within the <strong>Alpine region<\/strong>, known for its extensive glacial coverage.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>collapse of Birch Glacier<\/strong> led to the <strong>blockage of the Lonza River<\/strong>, which flows through the L\u00f6tschental Valley.<\/li>\n<li>Birch Glacier was <strong>unique among Swiss glaciers<\/strong> as it was <strong>advancing<\/strong> rather than retreating.<\/li>\n<li>This forward movement was <strong>not due to increased snowfall<\/strong>, which typically fuels glacier growth.<\/li>\n<li>Experts believe the <strong>advance was likely caused by rockfall accumulation<\/strong> from a neighboring mountain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, a massive portion of the Birch Glacier broke off, causing extensive destruction to an Alpine village in Switzerland. About Birch Glacier Birch Glacier is situated in the Lotschental Valley in northern Switzerland. The glacier lies within the Alpine region, known for its extensive glacial coverage. The collapse of Birch Glacier led to the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/birch-glacier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birch Glacier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11211],"tags":[12054,12127],"class_list":["post-339164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-factly","tag-npr-org","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}