Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

With over 130 wineries and nearly 3,000 acres of grapes, Walla Walla, Washington is the perfect weekend destination to unwind ...

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge is located approximately a half hour west of Spokane, Washington, the second largest c ...

Glacier National Park and the surrounding areas are expecting a classic "nearly summer" snowfall. Up to a FOOT of fresh snow is possible for the higher elevations above 6,000 feet. Lower elevations ...

And Lake Missoula wasn't the only ice-dammed lake. One in northern Washington, Glacial Lake Columbia, formed when ice blocked the Columbia and, for a time, sent it down Grand Coulee — the water ...

As the lake filled, the water began to lift the glacier, carving a 25-kilometer-long tunnel beneath the ice, through which the water eventually burst into the world's largest fjord, Scoresby Sound.

For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, where more than 3,000 billion liters of meltwater were unleashed in just weeks. This ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, Lake Missoula had an outburst that was 2,500 times larger than the recent Catalina event. To understand these massive forces, we must study the largest outbursts ...

They came down from the Spokane area, Glacial Lake Missoula up in Montana, down through Idaho and into the channeled Scabland of Eastern Washington. And a lot of that water ended up coming right ...

Feb. 1—WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will host a talk on a pioneer in the geology of the Columbia Basin, according to an announcement from ...

Suicide Basin — a side basin of the Mendenhall Glacier — has released water that has caused sporadic flooding along the Mendenhall Lake and Mendenhall River since 2011, according to the ...