A rush of glacial floodwater swept down Alaska’s Mendenhall River on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation warnings in ...

City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...

The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska's capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...

A powerful surge of glacial meltwater is once again testing Juneau's resilience, and this time, the ripple effects could ...

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

After waters peaked at 16.65 feet, newly installed HESCO barriers and early alerts spared schools, homes and businesses from ...

A glacial lake outburst flood in the Sikkim Himalayas in October 2023 damaged more than 30 bridges and destroyed a 200-foot-high (60 meters) hydropower plant. Residents had little warning. By the time ...

Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...

Residents in the city's flood zone have been urged to leave the area as water has started escaping the ice dam.

Newly installed river barriers held back record levels of flooding and prevented widespread damage in Alaska’s capital city ...

Mendenhall River runs through Juneau, Alaska. The river rose to a record level, but temporary barriers largely kept major ...