Dangerous landslide-triggered tsunamis linked to receding glaciers — which are shrinking globally due to climate change — are on the rise in Alaska.

In the early morning hours of August 10, 2025, a massive landslide caused at least 2.3 billion cubic feet of rock—roughly 24 times the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza—to plummet into Tracy Arm ...

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 ...

Last summer, a massive landslide slid into a fjord south of Juneau, Alaska, producing an enormous surge of water that ran up the opposite hillside and sped down the channel, scraping off trees and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in August of 2025, something massive happened in Alaska. Deep in the Tracy Arm, a stunning fjord southeast of Juneau, more ...

Aerial view of the August 2025 landslide and tsunami near South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska A massive 'megatsunami' wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second ...

A magnitude-8.7 earthquake in Russia’s Far East early Wednesday prompted tsunami warnings in parts of Japan, Alaska and ...

(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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael E. West, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Ezgi Karasözen, University of ...