As Alaska’s glaciers continue their retreat, an Alaskan returns to the first one she loved to explore what remains — and what’s at stake.

The retreat of the planet's glaciers is one of the most visible and dramatic indicators of the far-reaching impact of climate ...

Glaciers worldwide are archives of human pollution, preserving carbon from fossil fuels and wildfires in their ice for ...

I still recall my first flight to Alaska, when I had a window seat on a Western Airlines 727. My face was pressed against the window once the mountains and glaciers started coming into view.

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...