Stand in awe while admiring the constantly changing, absolutely stunning Alaskan landscape, which includes the largest tidewater glacier in the country.

A tidewater glacier in Alaska is melting underwater at rates upwards of two orders of magnitude greater than what is currently estimated, sonar surveys reveal. The study's results, based on direct ...

By including bursting bubbles in their model, the team was able to describe the observed melting of tidewater glaciers far more closely than previous studies. “In a lab setting, we found that glacier ...

Glacier Bay National Park became the Nation's 50th. U.S. National Park on December 2, 1980. Today, it is home to one of ...

Whittier and Prince William Sound: Tidewater glacier tours Continue down Portage Glacier Road another few miles — including a trip through the 2.5-mile-long Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel ...

In tidewater glaciers—large rivers of ice that pour into the sea—the steady melting of ice underwater causes billions of these bubbles to burst into the water “like little tiny gunshots ...

There are hundreds of unnamed glaciers on Denali, and 40 named ones, according to the National Park Service. The longest ones — Ruth, Kahiltna and Muldrow — each span more than 30 miles.

Matanuska Glacier, about 100 miles from Anchorage, is another example. “It's only retreated a little bit. It's actually very close to where it was even 120 years ago, but it has thinned a lot ...

Bursting air bubbles may play key role in how glacier ice melts, OSU research suggests ...

Today, however, the last tidewater glaciers continue to recede up into the mountains rather than gather for another advance. There are exceptions, depending on the lay of the land: A few glaciers ...