Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...

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 ...

Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...

These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...

The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...

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

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

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

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 ...