Dec 18, 2025 · The Columbia Glacier is one of Alaska's better known tidewater glaciers, both from the standpoint of tourist attraction and the model it provides for scientific investigation. In 1973 …

Dec 18, 2025 · Columbia Glacier, located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Valdez near the epicenter of the great 1964 earthquake, is rapidly losing its battle for survival. It is the last of …

The Alaska-Canada boundary was originally established in February 1825 by Russia (then owner of Alaska) and Great Britain (then owner of Canada).

Apr 12, 1981 · By glowing red on Sunday night, April 12, 1981, the heavens over the United States displayed their pleasure with the successful flight of the shuttle Columbia. Perhaps …

Nov 14, 2025 · That helped build the coastal mountains of today’s Alaska and British Columbia. The combination of the northern fault action and the southern land accretion instigated the …

Dec 12, 2001 · Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound and Bering Glacier in the St. Elias Mountains are two glaciers losing ice at an alarming rate: during the past decade, Columbia …

Dec 11, 2025 · A few days ago, the forces beneath Alaska rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier.

Feb 11, 2016 · Southern worms live in the British Columbia Coast Range, the Cascades of Washington and Oregon and the Olympic Mountains of western Washington. The southern …

Dec 18, 2025 · The French chemist Antoine Lavoisier then tried directing a stream of that gas onto charcoal to generate enough heat, and was able to melt platinum for the first time. With …

Sep 12, 2024 · The road then ended a few hundred miles short of Alaska, in Hazelton, British Columbia. A historical novelist and fiction writer, Colby filled 500 pages of A Guide to Alaska …