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Watery Mess Parts of Alaska's state capital of Juneau flooded earlier this week after a melting glacier near the city and ...
During the week of August 11, the Mendenhall Glacier released its yearly glacier lake outburst flood, also known as a ...
Residents in some parts of Juneau evacuated ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin ...
Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.
New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...
The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
N ew sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska's capital city held back record levels of flooding and ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Don’t wait, Evacuate TONIGHT.” Those five ominous words flashed across Juneau’s official warnings this week, indicating what meteorologists expect to be the city’s most severe glacier-related flood in ...