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 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 ...

Melting of Alaska's Juneau Icefield Accelerates ... glacier shrinkage in Alaska from the year 2000 to the year 2020, we're losing more ice in Alaska than anywhere else,” Davies said.

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

A 28-year-old British woman is preparing to set sail on a solo loop of the Arctic Circle to break a record made potentially ...

The fate of Alaska’s ice matters tremendously for the world. In no other region of the planet are melting glaciers predicted to contribute more to global sea-level rise this century. The Juneau ...

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

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

Chunks of ice float on Mendenhall Lake in front of the Mendenhall Glacier on May 30, 2022, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer) (AP) — The melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield, home to more than ...