GENEVA: All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the ...

This is triggering an “avalanche of cascading impacts”, the UN agency warns, from flooding to water scarcity and sea-level ...

Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how ...

The agency received $4.75 million, but city officials say more money is needed for a fleshed-out feasibility study to assess ...

A glacial lake outburst flood in the Himalayas in October 2023 damaged more than 30 bridges and destroyed a 200-foot-high (60-meter) hydropower plant. Residents had little warning. By the time the ...

Travelling in Alaska — the US’s final frontier — can feel like jumping through a wormhole. Time here is marked not by the ...

I was asked by a friend to volunteer at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center to help keep the doors open and the outdoors ...

I had no clue what I was doing. As an adventurous 30-year-old solo traveller, I was not a cruise fanatic, not even a fan.

I was a U.S. Forest Service park ranger at Mendenhall Glacier for 14 years until I retired in 2018. Having lived in Juneau since 1969, I have watched the dramatic changes in glacial ice and the ...

On a sunny summer day in the early 1990s, a young woman in a wide brim hat presented our young children with a gift from the retreating Mendenhall Glacier. The National Forest Service ranger gently ...

In Juneau, tourism representatives say virtually all the employees at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, part of the Tongass National Forest, have been terminated. That’s raising questions ...