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 ...

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 ...

In the remote glacial fjords of the Alaskan coast, one part-time resident is helping scientists better understand the ...

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, ...

How hefty? You can expect to shell out at least $300 or more per person for most of these excursions. Even though shore ...

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 ...

It's hard not to be smug when you're on a small-ship cruise of Alaska. Whenever my wife, Lisa, and I were not congratulating ourselves for having chosen our little 84-passenger ship for a journey ...

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 ...

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 ...