Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.

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

Sections of Alaska’s capital city are bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters due to rainwater and ...

A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...

“A glacial outburst has occurred at Suicide Basin. The basin is releasing and flooding is expected along Mendenhall Lake and River,” Juneau officials said in a news release on Tuesday. Residents in ...

Residents in the city's flood zone have been urged to leave the area as water has started escaping the ice dam.

For three years in a row, Juneau has had unprecedented flooding in August from a melting glacier. This year, officials built a levee to protect the city. It seems to have helped, but it's temporary.

Although city officials expect a Mendenhall River levee to hold back glacial outburst floodwaters as soon as early August, they don’t want people to test it with their lives.

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 ...

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