An official state of the union for 66 years, Alaska is known for its glaciers, permafrost and national parks. Home to North ...

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

There's no other experience on Earth quite like witnessing the northern lights. Also known as the aurora borealis, this spellbinding phenomenon – when brilliant hues of green, yellow, red and purple ...

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 ...