However, the Juneau Icefield at about 1,500 square miles (3,900 km²), remains one of the largest icefields in the Western ...

The future of Alaska’s Juneau Ice Field is considered at high risk, with many glaciers having already melted, and other ice ...

Turbidity is a quality of flooded rivers where sediment is suspended in the water. It can also be caused by high water ...

Columbia Glacier’s Main Branch pulled away from a stabilizing rocky outcrop, while melting along the West Branch exposed “new ...

Torres del Paine National Park, located in Chile 's Patagonia region, is a magnet for trekkers worldwide. The park's famous W ...

CHILE’s towering El Plomo mountain, a 5,400m Andean peak visible from Santiago, has been revered for centuries.

Exit Glacier Campground is a beautiful 12-site walk-in tent-only campground in Kenai Fjords National Park just outside ...

The Swiss Alps are simply breathtaking and share a number of similarities with our Canadian Rockies as well as some ...

Corin Lohmann, owner of IceWalks, a tour operator on the Athabasca Glacier, part of the Columbia Ice Field in Jasper National Park, Alberta, said his company had to reroute the trail to the foot ...

They call it the Doomsday Glacier. A chunk of Antarctic ice as big as Florida and two thirds of a mile thick, the Thwaites Glacier disgorges into the ocean in a remote region of West Antarctica.

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier got its nickname, the “Doomsday Glacier”, for its potential to flood coastlines around the world if it collapsed. It is already contributing about 4 percent of ...

ANCHORAGE, AK (REUTERS) – Glaciers in the Juneau Icefield in southeastern Alaska are melting at a faster rate than previously thought and may reach an irreversible tipping point sooner than ...