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 ...

The National Park Service describes Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska as the location “where mountains, ice and ocean meet.” This description provides you with a good idea of what you can see at ...

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 ...