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Lori Dengler | August landslide tsunami in Alaska ranks as the second highest of all time

Last summer, a massive landslide slid into a fjord south of Juneau, Alaska, producing an enormous surge of water that ran up ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Rocks, roads and wilderness maintenance: 'Ghosts of Distant Trees' shifts the framing of mythical Alaska

‘I’ve tried and failed to be a cheerleader for the pure abstraction of wilderness,” Erica Watson writes in “Ghosts of Distant Trees,” her debut essay collection, “but I always find myself drawn back ...

Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded

Aerial view of the August 2025 landslide and tsunami near South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska A massive 'megatsunami' wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second ...
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Beneath Alaskan Wildfires, A Hidden Threat: Long-Frozen Carbon's Thaw

The Fish Creek Fire in Interior Alaska isn't much to look at. It's about 7,500 acres in size, sitting about an hour south of Fairbanks near the twisty Tanana River. The main fire front — the ...
The New York Times

Tree Lovers in the South Grieve Ice Storm’s Toll

The ice that fell during last month’s storm was unsparing: It decimated magnolias, oaks and other species in wealthy suburban enclaves, rural communities and urban parks. The ice that fell during last ...