After a magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier earlier this month, scientists believe a “connector fault” may ...

NASA's Earth Observatory has announced that Alaska has a "brand new island" after a retreating glacier lost contact with the ...

This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of ...

A few days ago, the forces beneath Alaska rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under ...

The past water year, October 2024 through September 2025, brought the highest Arctic air temperatures since records began 125 ...

A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be ...

“The future remains inscrutable and largely unwritten. But if love is paying attention, then our job is to keep watch. Even when it breaks our hearts.” — Julia Rosen, science writer Matanuska Glacier ...

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town. Since 2011, ...

(JUNEAU, Alaska) — One of Alaska’s most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier has started to release rainwater and snowmelt ...

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 ...

Ice climbers helped rescue two skaters who were stranded after a glacier collapsed and left them on the shore of Portage Lake, Alaska Girdwood Fire and Rescue/Facebook Two people were stranded and ...