Officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s ...

Getting to see a glacier on a climb is a humbling — and increasingly rare — encounter with overwhelming beauty. Glaciers carry tens of thousands of years of compacted snow and ice, creating a ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice. FACT FOCUS: As cold hits, Trump asks, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This satellite image provided by NASA Earth Observatory shows the retreat of Alsek Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice. Mauri S. Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols ...

Of the thousands of glaciers spread across Alaska, only about 700 have names. These ever-evolving features have lacked a centralized source for information about their status, names or interesting ...

A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small ...

To get to Glacier Bay National Park, you have to fly or swim. Measuring more than 5,000 square miles, the Southeastern Alaska park is only accessible by air or water, and visitors typically arrive in ...

In the shifting landscape of Alaska’s ice, size is not always what it seems. Last weekend, a column in the Anchorage Daily News declared Malaspina Glacier the largest in Alaska. It’s a claim that ...

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