Tracy Arm, a narrow inlet with steep walls, sits at the edge of two glaciers. Both are fed by the nearby Stikine ice field, which has been rapidly thinning for decades, causing the glaciers to shrink ...
On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a ...
In the spring of 2024, a group of scientists attending a national seismology conference in Anchorage purposely sailed into danger. Chartering a tour boat, they sailed into Prince William Sound and ...
On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael E. West, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Ezgi Karasözen, University of ...