Travelling in Alaska — the US’s final frontier — can feel like jumping through a wormhole. Time here is marked not by the ...

Researchers concluded that the world’s glaciers have lost about 5% of their ice since 2000 – and that they’re melting faster than ever. But Alaska takes the cake. The report says the state ...

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe's Alps and Pyrenees lost 40% of ...

IN Mr. G. W. Lamplugh's interesting article on “The ‘Muir Glacier’ of Alaska,” published in your issue for January 28 (p. 299), appears the erroneous statement that Glacier Bay opens into ...

Thawing permafrost has caused the ground to subside more than 15 feet (4.6 meters) in parts of Alaska. From the Arctic to Peru, from Switzerland to the equatorial glaciers of Irian Jaya in ...

inspiring larger-than-life adventures like dog sledding across the face of a glacier and basking in the glow of the northern lights. To explore Alaska’s wildest spaces—such as, the eight ...

Kenai Fjords National Park is on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula and is dominated by two major icefields. The 19 glaciers included in the study are shown as blue dots. While Alaska glaciers are just a ...

Glaciers in Alaska are melting at the fastest rate of any of the 19 regions studied, losing about 67 billion tons (61 billion metric tons) of ice a year, producing the biggest net ice loss ...