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 ...

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.

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed this week is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world. In Switzerland, the mountainside gave ...

The Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped Alaska’s landscape and American earthquake preparedness forever.

Dozens of fire chiefs, city planners, tribal natural resource managers and other officials from across Southeast Alaska were set to gather last month for a second annual landslide conference.

Deadly landslides are increasing around the world, but in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial. (Christopher Miller/The New York Times) Over the past century, landslides in ...

Deadly landslides are increasing around the world. But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial. By Austyn Gaffney Photographs by Christopher Miller Austyn Gaffney traveled to ...