Alaska’s glaciers are melting for significantly longer periods as summer temperatures rise, with new satellite radar data ...
Warming and heat waves are extending Alaska’s glacier melt season, adding weeks of melting and accelerating ice loss, new ...
Dan McGrath receives funding from the U.S. Geological Survey. Every summer, people living near the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, keep a close eye on the water level. When the river level begins ...
The St. Elias Mountains in southeast Alaska are dotted with over 100 lakes where glaciers crumble into milky, turquoise water. Those lakes are expanding at an ever-quickening pace. The lakes will ...
In 1952, 52 servicemen died in a plane crash in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains. The discovery of their bodies may have been aided by a warming planet. An Alaska National Guard helicopter takes off at ...
ALASKA, USA — Snow-dusted peaks loom over fuzzy green forests, seven massive glaciers float in the ocean, and there’s enough marine life to fill a nature documentary. Glacier Bay National Park ...
As glaciers around the world melt at unprecedented rates, tourism in these icy landscapes is booming, adding pressure to vulnerable regions and disrupting delicate ecosystems. A collective effort, led ...
As glaciers around the world continue to shrink and disappear, they are drawing more visitors than ever, not only for their beauty but for what they have come to represent in an era of climate change.
As climate change continues to alter the planet, one of the earliest casualties will be glaciers spread across the world. However, the Pamir mountains in Central Asia have long resisted the trend of ...
A powerful swarm of earthquakes in January suggested one of Iceland’s giant “ice volcanoes” may be awakening after a decade of slumber. In the months that followed, more earthquakes have rocked the ...
New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide their fate. A major new international study led by ETH Zurich has, for the ...
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