On Alaska’s Harding Icefield, these microbes are responsible for about a sixth of the snowmelt in algae-tinged areas, researchers report September 18 in Nature Geoscience. The finding suggests ...
Just 125 miles (200 kilometers) south of Alaska’s capital, Anchorage, the over 600,000-acre national park is home to the Harding Icefield, the largest icefield wholly within the U.S., as well as ...
Frederick Mears by the city of Anchorage in commemoration of the building of the Alaska Railroad 1915-1923." Anchorage Museum On July 15, 1923, President Warren Harding hammered a golden spike ...