The Ice Explorer tours depart from the Columbia Icefield Discovery Centre, about 65 miles south of downtown Jasper, where travelers can park for free. Tours of the Athabasca Glacier are available ...

The resulting data could lead to more accurate models of temperate glacier ice and better predictions of glacier flow and sea-level rise. Neal Iverson started with two lessons in ice physics when ...

Covering nearly 10% of Earth's surface, glaciers and ice sheets are integral to the Earth's climate system, storing 70% of the planet’s freshwater, and glacier-fed lakes are home to a third of ...

With Maligne Canyon and other areas closed due to the Jasper wildfire, the national park has fewer natural ice climbing opportunities this winter. Rockaboo Mountain Adventures has made up for this ...

Buried within the permafrost, researchers believe this is the oldest glacier ice ever found in the Arctic. The glacier piece became visible after 2009 landslides in the area. Researchers were ...

Jasper in January. It is a magical thing. From hanging high on other-worldly ice sheets in Maligne Canyon ... Icefields Parkway – ogling the glaciers and towering, snow-capped sentinels ...

Glaciers, often associated with the vast sheets of melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland, are far more widespread and diverse than commonly understood. With over 200,000 glaciers outside the polar ...

AMES, Iowa – Neal Iverson started with two lessons in ice physics when asked to describe a research paper about glacier ice flow that has just been published by the journal Science. First, said the ...

The second-largest glacier-fed lake in the world ... (To book a motorcycle tour, check out the Jasper Motorcycle Tours website.) Once at the lake, visitors can take advantage of a variety of ...

What exactly is the definition of a glacier? – A glacier is formed when the snow that has existed for a long time has become so thick that it has compressed the snow to become ice, which then moves ...

Beautiful Lake Louise, surrounded by the snowy mountains and the massive Victoria Glacier, is a dream skating rink. Renowned for its crystal-clear ice and breathtaking mountain scenery, the lake is ...