For generations, the glacier fanned out across the lake that it carved out. Now, after two decades of rapid retreat, ...

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 ...

Scientists have had their eye on an Alaskan lake, watching an island suddenly emerge, largely as the strange result of the ...

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 ...

Warmer air makes glaciers speed up more and reach peak speed earlier each year, showing temperature strongly controls how ice moves.

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 ...

Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and snowmelt in a huge basin dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to flow ...