State governments, especially in Assam, have failed to implement long-term policies to alleviate people’s suffering.

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

Airport weather data shows Ketchikan saw nearly seven inches of rain in the couple of days before the slide. It’s one of the wettest Mays on record in the First City.

In 2015, the Taan fjord landslide on the other side of the Arctic in Alaska collapsed creating a 600-foot-tall tsunami, and just two years later, the Karrat fjord landslide in west Greenland ...

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 ...