May 22, 2025 · Columbia Glacier, located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Valdez near the epicenter of the great 1964 earthquake, is rapidly losing its battle for survival. It is the last of …

Jun 12, 2025 · The Columbia Glacier is one of Alaska's better known tidewater glaciers, both from the standpoint of tourist attraction and the model it provides for scientific investigation. In 1973 …

The Alaska-Canada boundary was originally established in February 1825 by Russia (then owner of Alaska) and Great Britain (then owner of Canada).

Dec 12, 2001 · Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound and Bering Glacier in the St. Elias Mountains are two glaciers losing ice at an alarming rate: during the past decade, Columbia …

Jan 12, 2011 · Many glaciers smaller than about five square kilometers — like those in the European Alps, New Zealand, Scandinavia and Glacier National Park in Montana — will …

Mar 13, 2025 · In both average discharge at mouth (225,000 cubic feet of water a second) and drainage area (328,000 square miles), the Yukon River ranks fifth nationally. For comparison, …

Feb 11, 2016 · Their DNA suggests ice worms belong to three groups so unlike the other they might be different species. Northern worms live in the Chugach Mountains. Central worms live …

Jan 18, 2001 · The big daddy came in 1971. Project Cannikin was a 5-megaton explosion that inspired the formation of the group Greenpeace, a group of environmentalists from British …

Early on the morning of December 19, 1980, a blood-red auroral arc suddenly appeared in the skies over British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Alaska. Because of the hour--the event …

Jul 11, 2019 · A man working with the International Boundary Commission in the early 1900s poses next to one of more than 200 obelisks that line the Alaska/Canada border.