The Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) calculates that thinning of Alaska’s Taku Glacier has increased from an average rate of 0.5 meter to 2 meters per year over the past two decades. Annual ...

“Did you get to see any glaciers?” That was the number one question I got from family and friends when I returned home from an Alaskan Cruise with Holland America Line. “Yes,” I replied, as a mental ...

As summer internships go, this was probably one of the more adventurous ones. Holly Harris ’22 spent two months traversing a glacier in Alaska, taking scientific measurements and carrying out ...

Thousands of salmon on the West Coast of North America are finding their way into new streams left behind as glaciers retreat. But a new study suggests mining companies are too keen on the newly ...

At 663,268 square miles, Alaska is by far the biggest state in the union. But only four states have fewer road miles. It makes sense that perhaps the best way to see Alaska — especially for visitors ...

The shrinkage of the ice feeding the Mendenhall Glacier is just as noticeable from the top as from the visitor’s center — at least when not trying to save yourself from a snow bridge collapsing ...

In Glacier Bay, Alaska, new river systems created by retreating glaciers were colonized by pink salmon within three decades of formation. Sockeye heading up to spawn in the Tulsequah River in ...