Summer heat wave may have triggered landslide on lonely Alaskan glacier

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 08:01 in Earth & Climate

A massive landslide in Alaska's snowy Wrangell-St. Elias mountain range in July may have been caused by a summer heat wave making some slopes more vulnerable to collapse, says the scientist who first discovered the avalanche.

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