City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...

Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...

Officials in Alaska have advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to ...

By Wednesday morning, the city reported water pooling on a handful of streets after seeping under newly erected barriers ...

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 ...

A warming climate is behind growing floods of glacier meltwater in Alaska’s capital. Scientists say it’s the new normal.

A glacial lake outburst flood in the Sikkim Himalayas in October 2023 damaged more than 30 bridges and destroyed a 200-foot-high (60 meters) hydropower plant. Residents had little warning. By the time ...

Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.

Evacuations are underway in parts of Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial outburst sent water rushing down the Mendenhall River into areas in the region, which is expected to cause major ...

On Tuesday evening, there was an alert published by the park service warning of a possible outburst flood in the canyon below Exit Glacier, “susceptible to unpredictable glacier outburst ...