Researchers concluded that the world’s glaciers have lost about 5% of their ice since 2000 – and that they’re melting faster than ever. But Alaska takes the cake. The report says the state ...

Many small glaciers "will not survive the present century," he added. The biggest losses were recorded in Alaska, where ice retreated at the fastest rate of any of the 19 regions the researchers ...

Glaciers in Alaska are melting at the fastest rate of any of the 19 regions studied, losing about 67 billion tons of ice a year, producing the biggest net ice loss, the study found. In the past 24 ...

Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

Alaska Wildlife Troopers said an avalanche buried three skiers under a blanket of snow between 40 and 100 feet deep in a ...

Just after 4 p.m. on Monday, Alaska State Troopers received notification that two people had become stranded when "a a piece of glacier calved onto the lake," a dispatch report states.

The rate of that loss seems to be accelerating," said William Colgan, a glaciologist for the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and one of about 60 authors of the study.Glaciers in Alaska ...