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 ...

About a century before Glacier Bay became a national park, conservationist John Muir visited the landform now called Russell ...

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 ...

Prow Knob provides a clear visual example of how glaciers are thinning and retreating in southeastern Alaska. "Along the coastal plain of southeastern Alaska, water is rapidly replacing ice," Lindsey ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Authorities said that Riccardo Pozzobon, a researcher from Italy who went missing after falling into a stream on Alaska’s ...

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