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Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.
The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska’s capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...
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 ...
Officials in Alaska have advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to ...
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...
A powerful surge of glacial meltwater is once again testing Juneau's resilience, and this time, the ripple effects could ...