Vessels are lined up in Whittier's harbor on July 16, 2025. The harbor look out onto western Prince WIlliam Sound, which is packed with melting glaciers and narrow fjords, where steep slopes are at ...

The Barry Arm landslide is enormous—about 500 million cubic meters of rock, roughly the size of a city block and enough material to bury Manhattan under a 200‑foot layer of debris. The slope has been ...

This satellite image provided by NASA Earth Observatory shows the retreat of Alsek Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, as it loses contact with a land mass known as Prow Knob, ...

SITKAGI BLUFFS — While paddling a glacial lake complete with icebergs and milky blue water, I dipped my left hand, then tasted my fingers. Salty. That was a surprise to me, thirsty there on the edge ...

Three kayakers camping in southeast Alaska, near where it borders with B.C., awoke Sunday to the roaring swoosh of water outside their tent. A freak tsunami triggered by a huge landslide — big enough ...

Move over earthquakes, tsunamis have taken center stage. I will acknowledge the largest magnitude earthquake since 2011, but the Kamchatka M8.8 did little shaking damage and the tsunami was the bigger ...