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

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 ...

Carved over millennia by the pressure and motion of glacial ice, the valley walls cradling the Tracy Arm fjord in southeast ...

New satellite images are helping scientists understand a major tsunami that changed the landscape of a popular tourist ...

Scientists say as glaciers retreat in a warming climate, landslide-generated tsunamis are likely to become more frequent.

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 ...

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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 ...

Last summer’s upheaval in Tracy Arm is a geological hazard that could happen to other northern landscapes, a new study warns ...

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 ...

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 ...

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