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 ...

How are state, local, and federal agencies preparing for an early fire season in Alaska? What little snow Southcentral Alaska received this winter is melting early in many parts of the state.

A teenage snowmobiler was caught and killed by an avalanche on the backside of Seattle Ridge at Turnagain Pass, Alaska, on Saturday ... said the avalanche crown was approximately 500 feet wide and had ...

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

Mendenhall is one of more than 100,000 glaciers in what's appropriately called the "Glacier State". Inside the Tongass National Forest, 19km from Juneau along the Alaska-Canada border in south ...

Glacial outburst floods, also known as jökulhlaups, have occurred since 2011 from Suicide Basin above the face of the Mendenhall Glacier ... Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and U.S. Rep.

GENEVA: All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, the United Nations (UN) said on Friday (Mar 21), warning that saving the ...

Glaciers are now 9,000 billion tonnes lighter than when records began in 1975, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS). “This is equivalent to a huge ice block the size of ...