University of Alaska professors and glacier researchers Jason Amundson and Martin Truffer will present the March 11 Fireside Lecture on the Taku Glacier at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. The free ...

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Chris McNeil has journeyed to Alaska's sprawling Taku Glacier at least once a year for the last decade. At 259 square miles, it's larger than Chicago. "You can see across this thing for days," said ...

The Taku Glacier, located north of Juneau, Alaska, has started to retreat as temperatures rise. New photos released by NASA this week show that the melting of Taku has at last become visible.

I saw a card at the state museum store downtown. It had a quote that read, “There is one word of advice and caution to be given those intending to visit Alaska … If you are old, go by all means, but ...

The Taku Glacier is shrinking. It was the last, remaining advancing glacier flowing out of the Juneau Icefield. A soon-to-be-published research paper will show how climate change is responsible for ...

The Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) calculates that thinning of Alaska’s Taku Glacier has increased from an average rate of 0.5 meter to 2 meters per year over the past two decades. Annual ...

The start of the cruise ship season brings a new excursion from one of the oldest tour outfits in Southeast. Allen Marine Tours is set to run hovercraft trips to the Taku Glacier starting this week.

The slow decline of Alaska’s Taku Glacier has become apparent in newly released photographs shared by NASA’s Earth Observatory. The massive glacier, which measures 4,860 feet from surface to floor, ...

Taku Glacier is the largest glacier draining the Juneau Icefield, and reaches tidewater near the mouth of the Taku River. Taku Glacier historically calved icebergs into a 100-m-deep tidal basin but ...