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Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Record floodwaters released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier crested Wednesday in a river that flows through Alaska’s capital ...
These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...
A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacial lake is causing a river to surge to a record level and is threatening ...
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 ...
Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.
The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...