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 ...

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.

When I was 19, desperate to be heroic, I moved from California to the Norwegian Arctic, then to the south tongue of a glacier in Alaska’s Juneau Icefield to work as a dog-sled guide for cruise ...

A cryobot, a specialized probe that can melt through thick icy crusts ... long, was tested at Alaska’s Juneau Icefield. Designed for NASA’s SWIM, the model showcased the envisioned size ...

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 ...

“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 ...