Ben Huff Abby Watts, a college student from Juneau, Alaska, is standing on a nunatak—an exposed ridge above an icefield ... of the glacier can resist melting throughout the year.

which increases the amount of sunlight that the snow soaks up and makes it melt faster, new measurements confirm. On Alaska’s Harding Icefield, these microbes are responsible for about a sixth ...

Alaska, enjoys a majestic setting in a narrow fjord with Mount Juneau and Mount Roberts towering above it. To the east is the vast expanse of glacial ice known as the Juneau Icefield, and to the ...

According to the World Meteorological Organization, glaciers melting between 2000 and 2023 resulted in the world’s sea levels rising by 18 millimeters. “[E]very millimeter sea-level rise ...

“This summer I participated in a traverse of the Juneau Icefield with the Juneau Icefield Research Program: 8 weeks of traveling over glaciers by ski and by foot from Juneau, Alaska to Atlin, British ...