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Leaky Ice Dam Prompts Evacuations in Alaska

Leaky Ice Dam Prompts Evacuations in Alaska as Record Floods Loom

A water basin in Alaska is overflowing its ice dam, the Mendenhall Glacier, and flooding the state capital, Juneau. Experts expect the likely record-breaking event to peak today, and officials have asked residents in parts of the city and borough to evacuate.

CBS News on MSN · 4d

Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier begins releasing floodwater, some residents urged to evacuate

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy declared a state disaster due to the "imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a glacier lake outburst flood" in the Juneau area.

The Boston Globe · 3d

Floodwaters from a glacier near Alaska’s capital city break record levels and prompt evacuations

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

2don MSN

As glacier thins upstream of Juneau, annual flooding is the new normal — for now

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

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)3d

Floodwaters from Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau break record levels and prompt evacuations

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

Anchorage Daily News5d

With a release imminent, scientists say the scale of flooding in the Mendenhall Valley is hard to predict.

Hood boarded a helicopter to investigate. Flying over the glaciers at the head of the Mendenhall River, he saw collapsed ice ...

8don MSN

Residents in Alaska’s capital city prepare for possible glacial flooding

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Residents and officials in Alaska’s capital city prepared Friday for the possibility of glacial ...

3don MSN

Floodwaters from glacier near Alaska's capital city break record levels and prompt evacuations

Some Juneau residents in the flood zone heeded warnings and evacuated after water started escaping the glacier's ice dam on ...

Juneau braces as Suicide Basin fills again. Here's what experts know, and don't know, about glacier outburst flooding in the Mendenhall Valley.

University of Alaska Southeast environmental science professor Eran Hood recalled that it was a sunny summer day in 2011 when an unexpected and potentially perilous situation began to unfold. The ...

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