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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 ...
Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...
Authorities are still taking stock of Mendenhall River flooding, but new temporary riverfront barriers appear to have staved ...
The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...
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 ...
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
Evacuations are underway in parts of Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial outburst sent water rushing down the ...
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...
The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...