Two significant earthquakes struck Alaska within four days, according to the National Center for Seismology. A 7.3 magnitude quake hit on 17 July, followed by a 6.2 magnitude tremor on 21 July, both ...

A series of three earthquakes jolted the area near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky within a 32-minute window on Sunday. The most powerful of the tremors, originally measured at magnitude 7.4 and later ...

According to the City of Corvallis Public Works Department, the project will replace a vulnerable pipeline with a larger, earthquake-resilient version. The existing 20-inch pipe, which crosses the ...

Climate risk to U.S. infrastructure is rising, and government cuts to climate science are only accelerating that risk.

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and gas development, including some of its most ecologically sensitive areas.

The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is vast, and drilling won’t occur across all of it. But oil and gas operations pose far-reaching risks that extend well beyond the drill sites.

Risk models can’t rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggests new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.