For many years, scientists have been discussing whether the population in mountain regions is increasingly at risk from ...

Does flooding from melting glaciers pose a growing danger in the high mountains? Not necessarily, as a study led by the ...

For many years, scientists have been discussing whether the population in mountain regions is increasingly at risk from meltwater floods, as melting ...

Ice seems temporary. It melts in a glass. It disappears at a sunbeam’s touch. It ebbs with the first relief of spring. But ...

The county's only emergency shelter is cutting emissions and costs, thanks to a donor doing his part to curb climate change.

While the lake and the gator are frozen ... In 1952, for instance, a military plane en route to Alaska was presumed lost after it crashed into a glacier. Nothing was recovered. For nearly 50 years, ...

Two ice skaters were stranded and self-rescued from a glacier chunk that fell onto the ice in Portage Lake, Alaska, on Monday ...

A 79-year-old man is missing after going ice skating on a frozen Alaska lake, officials said. Thomas McGuire, of Haines, went ...

This is the moment the Portage glacier near Whittier, Alaska calved and crashed into the frozen Portage Lake, causing huge ...

Ice climbers helped rescue two skaters who were stranded after a glacier collapsed and left them on the shore of Portage Lake, Alaska Girdwood Fire and Rescue/Facebook Two people were stranded and ...

An eyewitness, who was skating on the frozen glacial lake about a 56-mile drive southeast from Anchorage, said she heard ...