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Landslide in early August in Kenai Fjords National Park triggers tsunami, scientists advise caution in the region


Landslide in early August in Kenai Fjords National Park triggers tsunami, scientists advise caution in the region

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Scientists and officials with Kenai Fjords National Park are advising people staying in an area near Seward to be cautious after they say a heavy rain event earlier this month in Pedersen Lagoon caused an estimated 2.6 million cubic yards of land to slide and trigger a tsunami. The massive landslide […]

A Flintstone family-style home was built around 200 million-year-old red rock in Colorado – and is now for sale


A Flintstone family-style home was built around 200 million-year-old red rock in Colorado – and is now for sale

The Flintstones House in Larkspur, Colorado – The Thayer Group / SWNS Check out this real-life Flintstones house, a property built around a giant 200-million-year-old red rock. The two-bedroom house in Larkspur, Colorado, has a unique style, with the boulder integrated into the interior of the house – perfect for a geology (or The Flintstones) […]

A dive into the park’s thermal activity


A dive into the park’s thermal activity

Visitors to Yellowstone National Park were startled last month by an unexpectedly powerful hydrothermal explosion – an eruption of hot underground water – that sent steam, boiling water, mud and grapefruit-sized chunks of rock several hundred feet into the air. No one was injured, but the July 23 explosion in the Biscuit Basin area, just […]