New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...

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

Too much water behind these dams or a landslide into the lake can break the dam, sending huge volumes of water and debris sweeping down the mountain valleys, wiping out everything in the way. Most ...

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

Alaska's capital suffered massive flooding and record-high water levels after an ice dam burst at a nearby glacier, releasing ...

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

With rising global temperatures accelerating glacier melt, the threat of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) is growing dangerously across Nepal’s Himalayas.

A violent subglacial flood in Greenland ruptured the ice from below—forcing scientists to rethink ice sheet behavior.

A huge flood triggered by the rapid draining of a lake beneath the Greenland ice sheet occurred with such force that it fractured the ice above and burst out across its surface.

Earlier this year, the Centre approved the National Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) Risk Mitigation Project (NGRMP) for implementation in Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Uttarakhand ...

The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said last week that more intense downpours and glacier outburst floods are becoming increasingly frequent, with deadly consequences for communities ...