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What Is a Glacial Outburst Flood? Alaska’s Suicide Basin Explained

Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and officials are urging some residents of the city of 30,000 to evacuate. The meltwater is rushing downstream ...

Temporary barriers spared Alaska’s capital from severe flooding. A long-term solution is elusive

This year, a giant wall of reinforced sandbags erected with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held back the worst ...
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Governor issues preemptive disaster declaration for Juneau as Suicide Basin nears capacity

Current reports from the National Weather Service estimate the basin will be full Monday, but a release can happen at any ...

Juneau braces as Suicide Basin fills again. Here's what experts know, and don't know, about glacial outburst flooding.

University of Alaska Southeast environmental science professor Eran Hood recalled that it was a sunny summer day in 2011 when an unexpected and potentially perilous situation began to unfold. The ...
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Suicide Basin reaches capacity; CBJ urges residents in inundation zone to prep for evacuation

The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...

Trump and Putin’s Ukraine Summit Meeting Isn’t the Only Scary Thing Happening in Alaska This Week

On Friday, the president is flying to the state of Alaska, which he likes to refer to as “Russia,” to meet with Vladimir ...

Ice dam in Alaska releases historic amounts of floodwater toward downstream homes

Communities in Alaska have issued flood warnings and evacuations as the glacial release from Suicide Basin above Mendenhall ...
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With a release imminent, scientists say the scale of flooding in the Mendenhall Valley is hard to predict.

Hood boarded a helicopter to investigate. Flying over the glaciers at the head of the Mendenhall River, he saw collapsed ice ...