Author Naomi Klouda says “The Alaska Glacier Dictionary” is for travelers and armchair adventurers alike, to give them quick ...

Gulkana Glacier, here seen from Summit Lake off the Richardson Highway, is shrinking back into the mountains of the Alaska Range. (Photo by Ned Rozell) Glaciers worldwide are withering.

Glacier Bay National Park became the Nation's 50th. U.S. National Park on December 2, 1980. Today, it is home to one of ...

Alaska has some of our planet’s largest icefields, and their melting is a major contributor to sea-level rise. As the ice melts, the level of the Earth's oceans rise, which will slowly put some ...

A sportsman’s paradise, it beckoned an exhausted Father Hubbard, the glacier priest who crossed the Juneau Icefield from Mendenhall to Taku glaciers in 67 hours, and yachtsmen Erie Smith, her ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — On the morning of the flood, Amy Ballard arranged her twins, Brighton and Broderick, on a hummingbird-and-butterfly blanket for their photo. The note between their smiling faces ...

A rush of water unleashed by an ailing glacier swelled an Alaska river to record levels Tuesday causing unprecedented flooding in Juneau nearly a year to the date of a similar destructive event.

For instance, Pine Island Glacier and Smith Glacier have shown signs of instability similar to those once attributed solely to Thwaites. Rethinking Our Approach.

During the summer in Alaska, tourists can find a wintery dog mushing experience on the Norris Glacier near Juneau. A dog sledding camp there helps mushers maintain a steady income during the off ...