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.

Scientists warn that climate change is destabilising mountainsides above Alaska’s fjords, threatening cruise ships and ...

That’s what happened back on August 10 this year, when a massive landslide occurred in Tracy Arm – a fjord about 130 ...

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 ...

A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small ...

Direct feeds from seismology stations across Alaska are expected to stop in mid-November, state officials say.

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 ...

This satellite image provided by NASA Earth Observatory shows the retreat of Alsek Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, as it loses contact with a land mass known as Prow Knob, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice. Mauri S. Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols ...