It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.
The slide created a gargantuan splash – a hyper-local, but massive tsunami that ran up the opposite mountain slope, leveling everything in its path as high as the Empire State Building.
It ripped evergreens out of the ground, stripped a nearby island to bare rock and pulverized the glacial ice around it.
Full story The next deadly climate disaster could wipe out glacier-chasing cruise ships
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