Glaciers serve as the largest reservoirs of frozen freshwater on Earth. They primarily form when massive ice sheets from the Arctic and Antarctic break into smaller sections. Additionally ...

The monitoring results showed that in 2024, the surface of the Left Aktru glacier with an area of 5.2 km decreased by an average of 1024 millimeters in water equivalent, which is 1.15 meters of ice.

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

Portage lake and glacier on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. Lauren Jobe was skating on Portage Lake on Monday, Feb. 10, when she heard the glacier start cracking. She was about 80 yards away. “I know they ...

This is a developing story. Update, 6:15 p.m. Thursday: A portion of the face of the Mendenhall Glacier collapsed into Mendenhall Lake on Thursday, prompting a further warning from the U.S. Forest ...

Two people had to be rescued from Portage Lake on Monday after a massive piece of the glacier there calved onto the ice, stranding them on shore, according to the Alaska State Troopers.