As Two Bear Air Rescue’s helicopter hovered close to a steep cliff in Glacier National Park to recover the body of a man who had fallen to his death in July, numerous people with cellphones hiked the ...

Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park is a natural wonder, but retreating glaciers have changed the landscape over the years, ...

RHÔNE GLACIER, Switzerland — On a hotel veranda overlooking Lake Lucerne, Barbara Achrainer sips a latte and, with a sigh, peers at sightseers boarding a tour boat. It's a warm summer afternoon and ...

Of the thousands of glaciers spread across Alaska, only about 700 have names. These ever-evolving features have lacked a centralized source for information about their status, names or interesting ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had ...

A huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier started to release on Tuesday, as officials urged residents in some parts of the state capital of Juneau to ...

A Swiss Alpine village was largely wiped out on Wednesday after a massive glacier carrying rock and debris detached and roared down the mountainside, destroying everything in its path. Scientists had ...

New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented widespread damage after an ice dam at the nearby Mendenhall Glacier ...

See Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier from above, one of the world’s last advancing ice fields. Located in Los Glaciares ...

An overflowing glacial lake caused a surge in the Mendenhall River on Wednesday, prompting flood alerts and evacuations in Juneau. By Raymond Zhong An overflowing glacial lake north of Juneau, Alaska, ...

A snowboarder was rescued from a glacier in Colorado after roughly falling 100 feet, officials announced on Tuesday, Sept. 9. A day before, on Sept. 8, authorities received a report of a person ...

The lofty mountains and jewel-toned lakes of western Canada are breathtaking. While the dreamlike views enchant, crowds and traffic often pack Alberta’s busy national parks in the summer months. Not ...