Imagine standing atop a mountain, surrounded by a frozen world sculpted over thousands of years—only to watch it melt away ...

Glaciers worldwide are archives of human pollution, preserving carbon from fossil fuels and wildfires in their ice for ...

Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several flash floods in recent years from a glacial lake dammed by ice on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier. Those floods, including in 2024, were driven by a melting ...

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

"It's like watching the Statue of Liberty melt." Scientists ... in parts of Alaska. From the Arctic to Peru, from Switzerland to the equatorial glaciers of Man Jaya in Indonesia, massive ice ...

Eventually it creates a sort of moving river of ice, called a glacier. The ice does not melt much at high altitudes, but does when it moves down to warmer levels. Usually there is a balance ...

After 1750, most glaciers in Alaska started thinning and retreating ... which means a larger portion of the glacier can resist melting throughout the year. It also helps that the Taku Glacier ...

I still recall my first flight to Alaska, when I had a window seat on a Western Airlines 727. My face was pressed against the window once the mountains and glaciers started coming into view.