As Greenland’s ice melts and water flows into the ocean, sea level changes, but in ways that might not be intuitive. Away from the island, sea level is rising about an inch each ...

WASHINGTON — Opposition candidate and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado would win a free and fair Venezuelan ...

A section of the dirt trail at Lasuen Beach, also known as Lost Winds, has been blocked off and the city will send a ...

The National Weather Service confirmed a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, as reports indicated the tremor struck a heavily populated area with impacts, including landslides, still being assessed.

Heavy rain from a persistent atmospheric river pattern continues to impact California this week. Here's what's causing it.

Careful slope monitoring prevented mass casualties in the landslide at Blatten, Switzerland, this year, but mountain ...

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I have been fascinated by weather my entire life. That fascination led me to study climatology, then into a career as a geologist studying how water, weather and terrain create landslides across the ...

SEATTLE — The US Geological Survey and the State Department of Natural Resources are both concerned about the risk of widespread landslides in the coming days. USGS Data shows heightened groundwater ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A community is in recovery mode after a massive landslide displaced residents and impacted several homes on Friday morning. The landslide happened on OR 229, near milepost 14, ...

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Much of Western Washington is now considered at high risk for landslides after days of near-constant rainfall. In the past 72 hours alone, more than 6 inches of rain fell in Marblemount, Skagit County ...