This year, a giant wall of reinforced sandbags erected with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held back the worst ...

For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...

During the week of August 11, the Mendenhall Glacier released its yearly glacier lake outburst flood, also known as a ...

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

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, glacial lake outburst floods are unpredictable events that can cause major ...

The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those who live along the picturesque river that winds from the ...