Unusual weather patterns and climate change have been driving stark changes in the northwestern state. Now, new satellite images show the extent of this transformation.

On Alaska’s Harding Icefield ... tinge on the ice from those microbial residents helps explain why the ice sheet is melting faster than expected from climate change alone.

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists in Anchorage, Alaska, are warning of floods as above-normal winter temperatures contribute to ice melt. Average high temperatures for this time of ...

With the state’s glaciers retreating at alarming rates, there is no time like now to trek, climb, paddle and fly to see them ...

The archaeological site of Nunalleq on the southwest coast of Alaska preserves a fateful moment ... of the Earth now known as the Little Ice Age—that coincided with Nunalleq’s occupation.

May 12, 2022 May 12, 2022 Updated Jun 16, 2023 Alaska is undergoing a dynamic ... the combination of ice jams and snow melt is leading to flooding in communities around the state.

Winter in Alaska has waterfalls frozen mid-cascade, ice caves so blue they look unreal, and lakes so clear you can skate across them like glass.

When these layers of dense ice and snow that have built up over centuries begin to melt, the entire global ... a glaciologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Sea-level rise, coastal erosion ...

Nothing happened for weeks. Then suddenly Alaska started to warm, and on the webcam I could see ice melting on the river. And just as they said, the upstream river broke first. Quickly ...