A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small ...

SITKAGI BLUFFS — While paddling a glacial lake complete with icebergs and milky blue water, I dipped my left hand, then tasted my fingers. Salty. That was a surprise to me, thirsty there on the edge ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A researcher from Italy is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier — after the body of another man, a hiker from Arizona, was found earlier this week ...

In the shifting landscape of Alaska’s ice, size is not always what it seems. Last weekend, a column in the Anchorage Daily News declared Malaspina Glacier the largest in Alaska. It’s a claim that ...

Two tourists fell to their deaths this week near a glacier in southeastern Alaska, in separate fatal incidents, authorities said. Juneau Mountain Rescue and multiple crews of search dogs surveyed the ...