Natural disasters like the one at Tracy Arm fjord, about 45 miles south of Juneau, could become more common as climate change ...

New research demonstrates shipborne navigation systems have potential to improve tsunami detection and warning. Landslide-generated tsunamis pose a serious risk to coastal communities, particularly ...

Across our warming world, the ground is growing less stable. Nowhere is the problem more evident than in Alaska, where one ...

In 2025, the retreating South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska's Tracy Arm, a fjord near Juneau, triggered a large landslide. As debris from the landslide smashed into the water, it triggered a megatsunami ...

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In the spring of 2024, a group of scientists attending a national seismology conference in Anchorage purposely sailed into danger. Chartering a tour boat, they sailed into Prince William Sound and ...

Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and landslides are commonly prefaced by the phrase, 'not if, but when.' This precarious reality is now a bit more predictable thanks to ...

From the Southeast rainforest to the Arctic tundra, warming conditions are creating a variety of Alaska landslide hazards, some of them posing extreme hazards to human safety and others creating ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned ...

If the landslide at the Barry Arm fjord collapses, its falling ice and rock could generate a devastating 650-foot-high tsunami Darren Orf To live during an age of rapid climate change is to be witness ...

In the days since last week’s fatal landslides at Mount Maunganui, there has been widespread discussion about what may have caused the slopes above the campground to fail, including the possible role ...

The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned Monday that Hurricane Melissa could cause catastrophic flash flooding and numerous landslides in parts of Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola. The annual death toll ...