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symbolizes the rapid climate change that is weaking the Arctic ice pack, with profound implications for ecosystems, communties and cultures. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Suspended in ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska man walking on a shoreline wound up clinging to a chunk of ice for more than 30 minutes ... who launched an inflatable pack raft and rowed to Snedden’s location.
In the high glare of a summer evening in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ciara Santiago watched the mercury climb. A meteorologist at the ...
Other rivers across Alaska also saw rapid melting and resultant flooding, prompting Governor Mike Dunleavy to declare a state of emergency on May 13. The rapid melting of ice can trigger ice jams ...
“That’s what we’re about to do.” Every February in Fairbanks, Alaska, the World Ice Art Championships, also known as Ice Alaska, hosts the most talented sculptors from across the glob ...
A Carnival Cruise Line ship grazed a piece of ice during an Alaska cruise last week. “Carnival Spirit made contact with an errant piece of drifting ice last Thursday while sailing in Tracy Arm ...