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A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...
Sections of Alaska’s capital city are bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters due to rainwater and ...
Officials in Alaska have advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to ...
Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...
Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.
A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacier is threatening significant, potentially record-breaking flooding in Juneau ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
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 ...