An earth scientist explains the impact that ice loss can have on the stability of the surrounding mountain slopes and glacial lakes.

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40 ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

According to the City and Borough of Juneau (CBJ), the Forest Service last week were told that it could offer laid-off employees at the visitor center their jobs back.

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

has been hit by several flash floods in recent years from a glacial lake dammed by ice on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier. Those floods, including in 2024, were driven by a melting glacier that slowly ...

"We generally see streams recover to a point where we didn't even know there was a dam there," Jeremy Dietrich, an aquatic ecologist at the New York State Water Resources Institute, told Yale ...

The judge sentenced Mendenhall to the maximum of 65 years in prison to be served consecutive to his two life sentences being served in Tennessee. "It is my hope that today’s verdict brings resolution ...

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall named Shelley as her choice to lead the city's public lands department. The role has been vacant since Kristin Riker retired at the end of 2024. "Our public ...