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Two polar explorers add to their ‘Ice Legacy’ with perilous 20-day crossing of the Juneau Icefield
The shrinkage of the ice feeding the Mendenhall Glacier is just as noticeable from the top as from the visitor’s center — at least when not trying to save yourself from a snow bridge ...
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Juneau's iconic icefield faces an irreversible melting crisis
Juneau's icefield is one of the largest in North America. It contains vast expanses of glaciers. According to new research, these glaciers are melting faster and may soon reach an "irreversible ...
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NASA tests tiny underwater robots for icy moon ocean exploration missions
NASA's SWIM robots, designed to explore icy moon oceans, showed maneuverability in Caltech tests after earlier trials in ...
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What's a 'Science Princess' doing in an ice field in Alaska?
"I was heading out to Alaska's Juneau Icefield to carry out research and I thought it would be a lot of fun. "The cape folded up really small so I had it in my backpack. When we had a break ...
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Juneau Travel Guide
To the east is the vast expanse of glacial ice known as the Juneau Icefield, and to the west are the wilderness islands of the Inside Passage. Because of the natural beauty that surrounds the city ...
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Lizzie Hebel
“This summer I participated in a traverse of the Juneau Icefield with the Juneau Icefield Research Program: 8 weeks of traveling over glaciers by ski and by foot from Juneau, Alaska to Atlin, British ...