The disappearance of glaciers is also creating opportunities for the multibillion-dollar mining industry. Like migrating salmon, mineral exploration companies are moving quickly into areas exposed by ...

British woman setting sail to break Arctic record made possible by melting ice - Ella Hibbert, 28, is preparing to set sail ...

Climate change is taking a dramatic toll on glaciers in Alaska: Glacier melt in a major Alaskan icefield has accelerated and could reach an irreversible tipping point earlier than previously ...

The initial results and observations from preliminary field experiments are inconclusive but encouraging. For example, the ...

Swiss researcher Achille Capelli has found an open-air laboratory in Alaska. He is studying the polar ice shelf and is ...

Paul Wilcox, a geologist at the University of Innsbruck, has discovered the first land-based evidence of meltwater pulses ...

On Alaska’s Harding Icefield ... tinge on the ice from those microbial residents helps explain why the ice sheet is melting faster than expected from climate change alone.

As Alaska’s glaciers continue their retreat, an Alaskan returns to the first one she loved to explore what remains — and what’s at stake.

The Arctic is melting at unprecedented rates: Greenland's ice is disappearing six times ... over a frozen lake near Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska. The results, some of which were reported in a ...

National Weather Service to launch first heat advisories in Fairbanks and Juneau this summer in response to climate change.

May 12, 2022 May 12, 2022 Updated Jun 16, 2023 Alaska is undergoing a dynamic ... the combination of ice jams and snow melt is leading to flooding in communities around the state.