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Evacuations are underway in parts of Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial outburst sent water rushing down the ...
As of 7:30 a.m., the National Weather Service said that Suicide Basin is now full to capacity. Monitoring devices "continue to show indications of over-topping the ice dam with icebergs being pulled ...
A historic flood is unfolding in Juneau, Alaska, as massive water releases from Suicide Basin threaten to break all previous ...
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy declared a state disaster due to the "imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a glacier lake ...
Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and officials are urging some residents of the city of 30,000 to evacuate. The meltwater is rushing downstream ...
Flooding from the basin has become an annual concern, and in recent years has swept away houses and swamped hundreds of homes ...
A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacial lake is causing a river to surge to a record level and is threatening ...
According to the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Juneau, the Mendenhall River crested at 16.65 feet – which now ...
The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.
The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...