Rapidly receding, the Athabasca Glacier draws visitors from around the world. The glacier is part of the massive Columbia Icefield, which divides southern Jasper and northern Banff, and is easily ...

The Icefields Parkway linking Jasper and Banff national parks in western Canada is a star. It’s a high-altitude 138-mile roadway along the spine of the Canadian Rockies with towering mountains, ...

Researchers say the 12-month vertical melt-rate observed on the Athabasca Glacier earlier this month "blows out" the previous record high melt-rate. "Over the last ten years this glacier's been ...

My world is melting. Take for example the time I went to climb ice on Kilimanjaro and my map of the ice cap was wrong. In the 20 years since the map was made, half of the glaciers had vanished. The ...

If you're on the hunt to experience the great outdoors, one spot in Alberta was just named a must-visit in the world for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever looked at a world map and thought it was set in stone, think again. Glaciers around the globe are melting at an ...

Photo taken on July 7, 2011 shows the sign of the location of the Athabasca Glacier in 1982 in the Canadian Rockies, Alberta, Canada. As the Athabasca Glacier keeps on melting 2 to 3 meters a year, ...

COLUMBIA ICEFIELDS, Alta. - What’s believed to be the most-visited glacier in North America is losing more than five metres of ice every year and is in danger of completely disappearing within a ...