The Columbia Glacier descends from an ice field 10,000 feet (3,050 meters) above sea level, down the flanks of the Chugach Mountains, and into a narrow inlet that leads into Prince William Sound in ...

August 2010 landsat image of Columbia Glacier overlaid with the curvilinear coordinate system employed by Meier et al. (1985) to describe the “main” flowline (M) and tributaries “west” (W), “main-west ...

This image shows the retreat of the Columbia Glacier, Alaska, USA, by ~6.5 km between 2009 and 2015. Credit GSA Today, The Geological Society of America, and James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey.

Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31% more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world’s mountain glaciers.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two mountain climbers missing in Alaska likely triggered a small avalanche, and officials said Tuesday the projected path of their suspected fall would end at a heavily ...