Experts studying the Alaskan landslide and tsunami say rapid glacier melt is causing similar geo-hazards here in B.C.

Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.

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A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century.

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...

Glacial lake outburst flooding is a flood that's produced by the quick, unexpected release of water from a glacial lake.

Nathalie Huber Kommunikation Universität Zürich. The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an increasing rate, a p ...

Swiss climbers slammed for landing plane near top of Mont Blanc Two Swiss mountaineers landed a small plane less than 400 metres from the summit of Mont Blanc on Tuesday before he ...

A team led by researchers from the University of Washington used a fiber-optic cable to capture calving dynamics across the ...

A British researcher's remains were discovered in a melting Antarctic glacier after he died in an accident in 1959.