Almost half of Kenai Fjords National Park, which sits on the southern coast of Alaska, is covered in glacial ice. As temperatures rise, almost two-thirds of the park’s glaciers are in retreat, a new ...
Anyone who dreams of going to Alaska may envision stunning landscapes and snow-capped mountains, but there’s much more to the Land of the Midnight Sun than at first meets the eye. If you’re dreaming ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Glaciologist Erin Pettit began a research project to find out what humpback whales heard when a big piece of ice falls from a glacier and crashes into the ocean. But the sound ...
Most people wouldn't expect coral to thrive in Southeast Alaska. But it exists in the silty waters of glacial fjords. Now scientists are wondering if the coral, which serves as important fish habitat, ...
It's hard not to be smug when you're on a small-ship cruise of Alaska. Whenever my wife, Lisa, and I were not congratulating ourselves for having chosen our little 84-passenger ship for a journey ...
Mist, rain, glacial valleys, precipitous cliffs and big bears are what immediately came to mind each time I thought about Misty Fjords, Alaska. In June 2013, along with two friends, we experienced ...
RUSSELL FJORD — Standing on this smooth gravel shoreline, 15 miles northeast of Yakutat in Southeast Alaska, you can tell something big happened. A forest of dead trees encircles the shoreline. The ...
Did you hear the story of a fungus meeting algae, and they took a lichen to each other? Well, apparently it’s a pretty common story up in the fjords of Southeastern Alaska, where scientists from the ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Glaciologist Erin Pettit began a research project to find out what humpback whales heard when a big piece of ice falls from a glacier and crashes into the ocean. But the sound ...
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