In a glacial lake outburst flood, water encased in the glacier's ice suddenly erupts when that ice is displaced, typically ...

A melting glacier in Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images ...

A researcher from Italy, later identified as Riccardo Pozzobon, disappeared after he fell into a stream on Alaska’s ...

The Italian man was on Mendenhall Glacier, near Juneau, when he fell into a stream and went into the 2-foot-wide hole in the ...

Freshwater runoff from nearby melting glaciers has nearly doubled the size of Alsek Lake in the last 40 years, leading to Alaska’s newest island ...

NASA's Earth Observatory has announced that Alaska has a "brand new island" after a retreating glacier lost contact with the Prow Knob mountain landmass in Alsek Lake.

A retreating glacier has revealed a new island in Alaska, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice.

Global warming is a tricksy beast. In some places, it’s transforming once-lush environments into barren deserts; in others, it’s doing essentially the opposite – albeit through an irony-fueled, monkey ...

Alsek Glacier disconnected from a mountain called Prow Knob sometime this past summer, making way for Alsek Lake to surround ...

Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and snowmelt in a huge basin dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to flow ...

Satellite images reveal a new island in Alaska's Alsek Lake, formed as retreating glaciers reshape the landscape.