Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered the reasons behind its rapid retreat and say it raises fears for sea level ...

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. How climate change is changing the way ...

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 ...

Satellite images reveal a new island in Alaska's Alsek Lake, formed as retreating glaciers reshape the landscape. NASA satellite imagery has revealed a new island off Alaska's coast that emerged after ...

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Two tourists fell to their deaths this week near a glacier in southeastern Alaska, in separate fatal incidents, authorities said. Juneau Mountain Rescue and multiple crews of search dogs surveyed the ...

An Italian man conducting research on an Alaska glacier was missing after he fell in a stream of meltwater and went into a 2-foot-wide vertical shaft in the ice Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A researcher from Italy is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier — after the body of another man, a hiker from Arizona, was found earlier this week ...