An official state of the union for 66 years, Alaska is known for its glaciers, permafrost and national parks. Home to North ...

As global warming accelerates, the increasing number of supraglacial lakes and the need to accurately measure their depths ...

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...

Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south ...