The Coast Guard rescued 18 people from a passenger vessel that ran aground near the Columbia Glacier Thursday. At 4:35 p.m., Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center watchstanders overheard the ...

New University of Colorado at Boulder research indicates the massive Columbia Glacier in Alaska will continue to increase its rate of recession over the next decade, possibly retreating as much as 10 ...

Sorry I haven’t had much time to blog. I’ll write more about my trip next week. It’s been AMAZING! Wednesday, we took a boat ride to the Columbia Glacier near Valdez, Alaska. The clouds broke up long ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A mesmerizing new series of images shows the retreat of Alaska’s Columbia glacier over the last 47 years in gorgeous, excruciating detail. The images were presented December 10 at the ...

In your article reporting work by climate scientist James Hansen, he points out the risk of sudden sea level rise due to tidewater glaciers collapsing in decades rather than centuries (1 August, p 9).