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Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...
Zaz Hollander is a veteran journalist based in the Mat-Su and is currently an ADN local news editor and reporter. She covers ...
A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacial lake is causing a river to surge to a record level and is threatening ...
Record floodwaters released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier crested Wednesday in a river that flows through Alaska’s capital ...
A powerful surge of glacial meltwater is once again testing Juneau's resilience, and this time, the ripple effects could ...