The Ice Explorer tours depart from the Columbia Icefield Discovery Centre, about 65 miles south of downtown Jasper, where travelers can park for free. Tours of the Athabasca Glacier are available ...

Whether you come on a tour or drive yourself, once you arrive at the Columbia Icefield Discovery Centre, you'll take a bus to the base of the glacier where you’ll transfer to an Ice Explorer ...

Friday marks the first-ever World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations to raise awareness about the rapid retreat of glaciers worldwide. As experts warn of ...

With glaciers disappearing at an alarming rate, 2025 has been named the Year of International Glacier Preservation. Here's ...

The event, known as calving, is a normal occurrence, said Victoria Pacheco, a tour guide in El Calafate ... report a visible decline in the glacier's ice. The glacier’s famous ice dam last ...

EL CALAFATE, Argentina (AP) — A creak, a thunderous roar, and then the plunge: Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier calves several times a day, as hundreds of visitors strain to see which side it will ...

Glaciers are now 9,000 billion tonnes lighter than when records began in 1975, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS). “This is equivalent to a huge ice block the size of ...

Last week, UA SCOPE and the Center for Community-Based Partnerships organized a Student Community Engagement Tour to Jasper, Alabama. During the first half of the trip, students enjoyed a walking tour ...