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 ...

Officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s ...

Record floodwaters released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier crested Wednesday in a river that flows through Alaska’s capital city with no immediate reports of major damage, though officials warned ...

A massive tsunami-causing landslide in Southeast Alaska on Sunday likely sent more than 100 million cubic meters of debris — the equivalent of 40,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools — into an icy fjord ...

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 ...

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 ...

Waters have receded, ending the flood threat after Alaska's capital city faced record floodwaters Wednesday stemming from a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, which released an "outburst flood" ...

Sections of Alaska’s capital city watched anxiously Wednesday as record floodwaters from rainwater and snowmelt released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier flowed downstream and began pooling in local ...