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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 ...
New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...
Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...
A "glacial outburst" threatens major flooding in Alaska's capital city as a glacial lake flood phenomenon inundates the Mendenhall River.
Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and officials are urging some residents of the city of 30,000 to evacuate. The meltwater is rushing downstream ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...