Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and snowmelt in a huge basin dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to flow ...
Juneau, Alaska, officials declared an emergency on Sunday as the Mendenhall River reached record levels due to a glacial-dammed lake outburst. The river crested at just under 15 feet late Saturday and ...
Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and snowmelt in a huge basin dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to flow ...
JUNEAU, Alaska - The City and Borough of Juneau has issued evacuation advisories for avalanche-prone areas as rain rapidly melts snowpack in the Alaska panhandle. Evacuation advisories are in effect ...
Glacial lakes across Alaska are expanding as ice retreats, and the water they hold is draining with increasing ferocity into communities downstream. Suicide Basin, a glacier-dammed lake near Juneau’s ...
Juneau’s flood wall to be rebuilt to withstand glacial outburst floods, double the size of last year
The temporary flood wall along the Mendenhall River just barely protected hundreds of homes from Juneau’s largest glacial outburst flood last summer. Now, city and federal contractors are racing to ...
A huge 13-mile glacier in Alaska has broken away, and it is slowly drifting through the waters of Alaska heading towards the mountain range nearby.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued its annual Arctic Report Card on Tuesday, which documents the way rising temperatures, diminished ice, thawing permafrost, melting glaciers ...
Officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s ...
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