In June of 1867 — a few months before Alaska would become part of the United States with the transfer of $7.2 million to Russia — William Healey Dall picked up a shiny black rock from a riverbank.

Researchers monitoring the unstable Barry Landslide in Alaska have identified a new class of short, high-frequency seismic signals that appear seasonally. Since 2020, researchers have equipped the Bar ...

Since 2020, the Barry Landslide in Alaska's Prince William Sound has been outfitted with instruments monitoring seismic ...

“The future remains inscrutable and largely unwritten. But if love is paying attention, then our job is to keep watch. Even when it breaks our hearts.” — Julia Rosen, science writer Matanuska Glacier ...

For generations, the glacier fanned out across the lake that it carved out. Now, after two decades of rapid retreat, ...

ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The bodies of three boaters from Europe who died in an Alaska lake were surrounded by frozen debris, a sign that the victims were killed by ice that fell from the melting glacier ...