RUSSELL FJORD — Standing on this smooth gravel shoreline, 15 miles northeast of Yakutat in Southeast Alaska, you can tell something big happened. A forest of dead trees encircles the shoreline. The ...

Mist, rain, glacial valleys, precipitous cliffs and big bears are what immediately came to mind each time I thought about Misty Fjords, Alaska. In June 2013, along with two friends, we experienced ...

Most people wouldn't expect coral to thrive in Southeast Alaska. But it exists in the silty waters of glacial fjords. Now scientists are wondering if the coral, which serves as important fish habitat, ...

Almost half of Kenai Fjords National Park, which sits on the southern coast of Alaska, is covered in glacial ice. As temperatures rise, almost two-thirds of the park’s glaciers are in retreat, a new ...

Anyone who dreams of going to Alaska may envision stunning landscapes and snow-capped mountains, but there’s much more to the Land of the Midnight Sun than at first meets the eye. If you’re dreaming ...

5,710. ... That was my goal for the day. Five thousand, seven hundred and ten feet of snow and tundra, ice and jaw-dropping views. Above all else, 5,710 was the ...

The Carnival cruise ship, the Carnival Spirit, was undamaged after grazing a piece of ice in Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord last week. “Carnival Spirit made contact with an errant piece of drifting ice last ...

Did you hear the story of a fungus meeting algae, and they took a lichen to each other? Well, apparently it’s a pretty common story up in the fjords of Southeastern Alaska, where scientists from the ...

Oct. 17, 2015, Taan Fjord, Icy Bay, Alaska. The friction that held silt to silt and rock to rock began giving way. Those first rocks shoved more rocks, and then more still. Some 200 million metric ...