Natural disasters like the one at Tracy Arm fjord, about 45 miles south of Juneau, could become more common as climate change ...

Last summer, a massive landslide slid into a fjord south of Juneau, Alaska, producing an enormous surge of water that ran up ...

It was the second highest tsunami ever recorded on Earth,” says Aram Fathian, a researcher at the University of Calgary and co-author of a recent Science study that reconstructed this event in detail.

If you’re one of the roughly 1.6 million people who took a cruise in Alaska last year, chances are you sailed through the Tracy Arm fjord. The picturesque, narrow fjord is a pop ...

Tsunamis are giant waves caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions under the sea or landslides. The tallest tsunami on record - about 1,700 feet (520 meters) - also was a localized event, occurring ...

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On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a ...

University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers have devised a way to remotely detect large landslides within minutes of occurrence and to quickly determine whether they are close to open water and present ...

The natural disaster struck in the Philippines on Monday, June 8 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve ...