When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This incredible astronaut photo shows the unusual point where a hefty non-retreating glacier, a ...

For the first time, Juneau’s famous Mendenhall Glacier is not touching Mendenhall Lake, which was hidden beneath a thick sheet of glacial ice only a couple of hundred years ago. Scientists say this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Geological Survey staff check monitoring equipment in Suicide Basin in June 2025. By August, the basin had filled with ...

Timelapse video captured the dramatic increase in water level at a glacial lake near Alaska's capital city of Juneau, which was bracing for flooding after a "glacial outburst" inundated a nearby river ...

Evacuations are underway in parts of Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial outburst sent water rushing down the Mendenhall River and into communities across the region. “A glacial outburst has ...

In 1995 large meltwater lake formed and developed on the surface of the 79°N Glacier. Researchers observed that over the years, this lake has caused gigantic cracks and the outflowing water is lifting ...

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier has started to release rainwater and snowmelt downstream, ...