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Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.
These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Sections of Alaska’s capital city are bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters due to rainwater and ...
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...
Officials in Alaska have advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to ...
In 2023, a glacier lake outburst at Mendenhall's Suicide Basin destroyed several structures along the Mendenhall River as the ...
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
A powerful surge of glacial meltwater is once again testing Juneau's resilience, and this time, the ripple effects could ...