Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

Terry Godes, the pilot who found the plane wreckage, said it was a miracle the man and his daughters survived the crash and ...

The Federal Aviation Administration started disciplinary action against the pilot, John Morris Jr., National Transportation ...

If the landslide at the Barry Arm fjord collapses, its falling ice and rock could generate a devastating 650-foot-high ...

Travelling in Alaska — the US’s final frontier — can feel like jumping through a wormhole. Time here is marked not by the ...

A pilot and his two young daughters have survived on the wing of a plane for about 12 hours after it crashed and was ...

Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several flash floods in recent years from a glacial lake dammed by ice on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier ... and is more prone to breaking, while ice and debris ...

For nearly 70 years scientists have been probing, measuring, drilling and generally getting to know South Cascade Glacier in ...

Accelerating ice melt from glaciers worldwide means an increased loss of freshwater resources, ever-faster sea level rise and life-threatening floods and landslides. In some regions, ice loss is ...

with nearby mountains and a glacier. It has been described by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as "notorious for its sudden, dangerous winds," with conditions that can cause havoc for both ...

the Matanuska Glacier is the largest in the US accessible by road. It takes less than two hours to get here from Anchorage along the scenic Glenn Highway, and many who visit Alaska by land make a ...