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Glacial outburst flooding from the Mendenhall Glacier in 2024 impacted hundreds of homes in Juneau, prompting the development of the Juneau Glacial Flood Dashboard.
The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska’s capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...
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Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.
Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...
A video shared from Juneau, Alaska, shows a tree flowing down the Mendenhall River during record flooding after a glacial ...
Residents in some parts of Juneau evacuated ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started ...
New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...
The Mendenhall River crested and began dropping Wednesday morning as a glacial outburst sent billions of gallons of water coursing through one of the most populated parts of Juneau. Destruction this ...