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Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...
Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...
Sections of Alaska’s capital city are bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters due to rainwater and ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy declared a state disaster due to the "imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a glacier lake ...
The Mendenhall Glacier — a thinning, retreating glacier that is a major tourist attraction in southeast Alaska — acts as a ...
“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 ...