About a century before Glacier Bay became a national park, conservationist John Muir visited the landform now called Russell Island when it was little more than a rocky rise poking out from the edge ...

Since 2012, the Army Corps of Engineers has pumped nearly 18 million cubic yards of sand up onto LBI, equal to 111,000 acres at a cost of $375 million. The island is a new phenomenon, formed in the ...

A new mass of land was recently formed off the shores of Japan after an explosive underwater volcano activated at the end of October, according to researchers from the University of Tokyo. The ...

The island forged in fire off the coast of Japan in October this year is still growing, as seen in a Copernicus Sentinel-2 image caught on Nov. 27. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

NASA satellite photos from 1984 to 2025 show the Alsek Glacier retreating by more than 3 miles, giving rise to a new island ...

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The island was destroyed by the same volcano that formed it seven years before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An island near ...

In The Americas, narrator Tom Hanks takes us on an expansive adventure from the southern tip of Chile to the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada. From the western Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Coast ...

The Pacific nation of Tonga is made up of 170 islands, but it just welcomed its newest addition – thanks to an underwater volcano. Near the center of the nation's island formation lies the Home Reef ...

The birth of an island is normally a process that requires the movement of vast tectonic plates over centuries, if not millennia. But in Alaska, a new island has popped up in just four decades. The ...