Blair Conklin goes on a search for one of the world's rarest waves, which leads to an unforgettable adventure among calving glaciers.

A glacier that had held a mountainside steady for millennia retreated just enough to expose unstable rock, and on August 10, 2025, that rock fell into Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord, creating a tsunami 481 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Early in the morning on August 10, 2025, Christine Smith awoke in a boat anchored in an inlet along southeast Alaska’s ...

The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska last August, leaving immense destruction in its wake. Luckily, there were no people nearby. But in ...

At 5:26 am local time on August 10, 2025, a massive wedge of rock with a volume of at least 63.5 million cubic meters detached from a mountain above Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord. The falling rock ...

Dangerous landslide-triggered tsunamis linked to receding glaciers — which are shrinking globally due to climate change — are ...

How else would you measure a tsunami? The Tōhoku tsunami at Fukushima Daichi NPP was 13‑14m high where it hit the seawall, but it would have been just a 1m or even less in crest height just a bit ...

On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a ...

We’ve seen glacier waves before, but this one hits different. A wild video from Greenland is making the rounds online after capturing the moment a gigantic iceberg collapsed into the sea, unleashing ...

In the spring of 2024, a group of scientists attending a national seismology conference in Anchorage purposely sailed into danger. Chartering a tour boat, they sailed into Prince William Sound and ...