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 ...

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

When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.

Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be ...

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

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 ...

The Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area (MGVC), which typically ... Cruise Ship Docked in Juneau, Alaska (Photo Credit: Darryl Brooks) With 1.6 million cruise passengers expected to visit Juneau ...

Most of the staff at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center were fired earlier this month, leaving city tourism leaders worried that one of Juneau’s most popular visitor destinations may reduce ...