It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.
What do you get when 100 million cubic meters (3.5 billion cubic feet) of land suddenly plunge into an icy Alaskan fjord?
(CNN) — For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city of Juneau. But, flood barriers installed by the city managed to ...
(CNN) — A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacier is threatening significant, potentially record-breaking flooding in Juneau for the third consecutive August. “A glacial outburst has occurred ...
GENEVA (AP) — The search for a missing 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday because of unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day ...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A researcher from Italy is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier — after the body of another man, a hiker from Arizona, was found earlier this week ...