As the name suggests, permafrost was long considered to be permanent. But more recently, researchers have come to realize ...

The world's ice is vanishing at an alarming rate — a result of climate change — and it's affecting more than the landscape.

A recent study finds that algae can store nutrients, potentially allowing them to spread across more of the ice sheet, ...

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

About 420 miles into his attempt to complete – in reverse – the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational race, the world’s ...

What a virtually snowless winter and early spring means for flower beds, car and ski trail maintenance, recreators, snowplowers and pooper scoopers in Anchorage.

The environment does not care about politics. Keep spewing greenhouse gases and face the consequences.” Grim news for the climate. Less reflective ice means more solar heat absorbed by the darker ...

Persistent warmth and rains have wreaked havoc with ski races and other events in the Anchorage area. Organizers are ...

The island briefly fell under the protection of the United States, which was interested in its critical weather stations, after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II. President Harry Truman ...

Three skiers are believed dead after an avalanche swept them away and buried them under a pile of snow nearly 10 stories deep ...

Waters from the Atlantic may be disrupting the layers of Arctic Ocean water that support sea ice formation and retention, ...

U.S. Army Arctic Regions Test Center (ARTC) is the Department of Defense’s lone extreme cold test facility.Tasked with ...