When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.

Too much water behind these dams or a landslide into the lake can break the dam, sending huge volumes of water and debris ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

Amit Sharma As per World Meteorological Organization, Glaciers dropped about 600 gigatons of water in 2023, the most ...

Too much water behind these dams or a landslide into the lake can break the dam, sending huge volumes of water and debris sweeping down the mountain valleys ... 10% of the Earth’s land surface that’s ...

Mount Spurr has been showing signs of an eruption since last year, but scientists think one is even more imminent.

Too much water behind these dams or a landslide into the lake can break the dam, sending huge volumes of water and debris sweeping down the mountain ... surface that's covered in ice.

Crews in Western North Carolina continue to work on a wildfire that began Wednesday in Haywood County. Here are the latest ...

In 2009, another large wildfire hit Horry County, where it burned more than 19,000 acres. Seven years later, the largest ...

Spring is on the horizon. While some of our favorite hikes are still inaccessible due to snow at higher elevations, here are seven hikes you could do tomorrow!