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Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Seismic stations more than 600 miles away picked up the rumbling as a mountainside collapsed upon South Sawyer Glacier and ...
A wave of water that gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake and sent a river surging to a new record level is causing flooding issues in the state capital of Juneau for the third consecutive August.
For three years in a row, Juneau has had unprecedented flooding in August from a melting glacier. This year, officials built a levee to protect the city. It seems to have helped, but it's temporary.
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...
A powerful surge of glacial meltwater is once again testing Juneau's resilience, and this time, the ripple effects could ...