According to a USGS publication, glaciers in Alaska haven’t been found north of Brooks Range. “It is the northernmost glacier in the U.S.,” said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Louis Sass.

Author Naomi Klouda says “The Alaska Glacier Dictionary” is for travelers and armchair adventurers alike, to give them quick ...

Alaska has some of our planet’s largest icefields ... aerial photographs, 3D terrain maps and satellite imagery to reconstruct glacier behavior over the past 250 years. Scientists say that if the ...

Travelers visiting Alaska often want to see its glaciers, but they don’t look like they used to.

Researchers concluded that the world’s glaciers have lost about 5% of their ice since 2000 – and that they’re melting faster than ever. But Alaska takes the cake.

Alaska glaciers, like this one in Kenai Fjords National Park, are shrinking fast. Alaska has been — and will continue to be — a place of great change.

Kenai Fjords National Park is on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula and is dominated by two major icefields. The 19 glaciers included in the study are shown as blue dots. While Alaska glaciers are just a ...

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is part of a 25-million-acre World Heritage Site, and like much of southeast Alaska, accessible only by boat or plane.

This roughly 300-mile drive from Anchorage to Homer through Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, you’ll visit the wildlife-rich waters of Prince William Sound, Kenai Fjords National Park, and Kachemak Bay.

Last month, Sheldon was tracing the outlines of glaciers so he could have an accurate glacier layer on his map. He was looking at the glacier database and the satellite images from far out.

Travelers visiting Alaska often want to see its glaciers, but they don’t look like they used to.