NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks to create a powerful, web-based tool that will show the ...

Tsunamis pose a risk to the entirety of the California coast. But should a major one strike, how bad could it be?

While the Chilkat Valley is not unique in facing landslides, the combination of steep slopes, heavy rainfall, aging ...

Klukwan researchers and emergency planners have been responding to the village’s landslide risk with efforts to develop an ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

For the last year, Alaska's Mount Spurr has been showing signs of a potential eruption on the horizon. If an eruption happens, it would likely occur at Crater Peak, shown in the background of this ...

Cutting 60 positions from a 2.5-million member civilian workforce might not seem like much, but in Alaska the loss of those ...

Scientists have, for the first time, detected a landslide-generated tsunami using satellite data from a research ship.

An Alaska man who was pinned face-down in an icy creek by a 318-kilogram boulder for three hours survived the ordeal with no major injuries, thanks in part to his wife's quick thinking and lots ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

When Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese representatives and three U.S. cabinet secretaries arrive in Alaska this week to discuss financing, building and utilizing gas from the proposed Alaska ...

Check dams set up on the water from the Lonza river flows over the mud and stone, after the formation of a lake by the last houses of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Saturday, May 31, 2025 ...