Senior Professor Wasantha Athukorala of the Economics and Statistics Department at the Peradeniya University stated that 2,180 natural disaster incidents have been recorded over the past five years, ...

Careful slope monitoring prevented mass casualties in the landslide at Blatten, Switzerland, this year, but mountain ...

After a week offline, Verizon's cell service was restored in East Glacier. But residents say the company's fix has led to spotty coverage and dropped calls.

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be ...

Researchers studying a massive landslide in Alaska have detected strange seasonal seismic pulses caused by water freezing and ...

From floods and forest fires to earthquakes—the frequency and intensity of natural disasters is increasing. This also means ...

See Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier from above, one of the world’s last advancing ice fields. Located in Los Glaciares ...

These 15 places represent the fragile edges of our world—from ice sheets the size of continents to underwater mountains—where ...

Welcome to your seismic update from across the state for the week of Dec. 10, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7.

For the first time, Juneau’s famous Mendenhall Glacier is not touching Mendenhall Lake, which was hidden beneath a thick sheet of glacial ice only a couple of hundred years ago. Scientists say this ...