Glaciers

Climate change may be baring Mount Everest

2013-05-14 13:16:00

A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found. Rocks and natural debris previously covered by snow are appearing now as the snow...

Body of 9-year-old recovered from 200-foot crevasse in Alaska

2013-04-15 09:35:00

Officials have recovered the body of a 9-year-old boy who died over the weekend after crashing his snowmobile through a glacier in Alaska. Shjon Brown’s body was recovered around 12:40 a.m. on Monday, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters...

New images from JPL's UAVSAR, the radar that sees through trees

2013-04-05 07:00:00

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may be most famous for sending Curiosity to Mars and Voyager�to the edge of�the solar system, but some of its coolest technology is being used right here on Earth. For the last month, a manned C-20A aircraft owned by...

'Chasing Ice' film composer J. Ralph sees climate change up close

2012-11-19 13:47:00

Upon reentering his recording studio in New York’s waterlogged Lower East Side neighborhood two days after Superstorm Sandy, musician and film composer J.� Ralph was struck by how quickly the 250-gallon fish tank he keeps filled with about three...

Yosemite National Park plan seeks to ease crowding and traffic

2013-01-09 08:33:11

Wildlife watching in Alaska

2012-08-05 00:00:00

If you visit Sitka and Juneau, Alaska, this month, it's often easy to spot bald eagles, ravens and black and brown bears on your own. (I expected to have the same luck in June and got skunked, except for the raven I photographed in a Foodland parking lot....

Must Reads: Befriending a pig and braving the elements

2012-05-27 04:38:44

The road less traveled to Machu Picchu

2011-07-24 00:00:00

Our first view of Machu Picchu was from across a cloud-covered valley. My daughter Betsy and I had hiked three hours in air so thick that you could cut it with a machete. We were exploring the partially restored Inca ruins of Llactapata with our...

Yosemite National Park still shows remnants of winter

2011-05-26 16:35:59

Avalanche buries more than 100 Pakistani soldiers in Himalayas

2012-04-07 04:39:27

Massive new iceberg forming -- right now -- in Antarctica

2011-11-04 21:36:58

Tours & cruises

2011-02-06 00:00:00

MEXICO Rockin' on water Sixthman's "VH1 Best Cruise Ever" aboard the Carnival Inspiration will feature a lineup that includes headliners Colbie Caillat, Train and Lifehouse. The itinerary also includes an eight-hour port call in Cozumel. Itinerary:...

Army climbers with the Alaska Northern Warfare Training Center helped recover the body of 9-year-old Shjon Brown from a moulin on West Gulkana Glacier.

2013-04-17 14:56:00

This view from Glacier Point is classic Yosemite: Liberty Cap framed by Nevada Fall on the right and Vernal Fall to the left.

2013-04-09 08:25:00

A young mountain goat follows its parent in a lush meadow near Logan Pass at Glacier National Park in Montana.

2013-03-12 00:00:00