On August 12, 1985, after taking off from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, JAL 123 was supposed to make a routine 54-minute flight to ...

A NASA satellite captured a stunning mix of cloud streets, spiraling vortices, and a rare polar storm over southern Alaska as ...

Let’s start with the bad. Carbon dioxide levels just hit a new record of 431 parts per million. Some of you may remember that 350 was the safe upper limit for atmospheric carbon. Oh, how times have ...

The airline’s demise means higher costs for consumers, but also opportunities for investors.

A report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board offers new details about the crash of a Boeing 737 in March 2022, ...

Three decades after the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, Krakauer revisits the legacy of his emotionally jarring, definitive work ...

The Mulchatna caribou herd is expected to begin calving soon, and the babies are particularly susceptible to being eaten by ...

A new study finds that a megatsunami in Alaska pushed water more than 1,500 feet up the sides of a fjord near Juneau. Researchers say more monitoring is needed to prevent future catastrophes.

A trade group this week urged the congressional delegation to adjust the federal government’s mail delivery reimbursement ...

A 1,578-foot tsunami in Alaska's Tracy Arm Fjord was the second largest ever recorded, driven by climate change.

Washington residents affected by severe storms, and flooding that began in December now have until Aug. 5 to file their ...

The polar explorer, along with designer and pilot Umberto Nobile, make what is considered the first successful journey of any kind to the pole ...