(JUNEAU, Alaska) — One of Alaska’s most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier has started to release rainwater and snowmelt ...
Residents of Alaska’s capital city found themselves racing against time Wednesday morning as dangerous floodwaters from a melting glacier prompted immediate evacuations across Juneau. The crisis began ...
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Melting Alaskan glacier floods Juneau as emergency wall is tested
When Alaska's Ice Surrenders to Water 65 feet, breaking records set just the year before when a sudden glacial lake outburst ...
Every year for about a decade, the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, has flooded from meltwater buildup on a nearby glacier. Those floods were minor until 2023, when a couple of dozen homes in ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado Boulder and Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan ...
Vessels are lined up in Whittier's harbor on July 16, 2025. The harbor look out onto western Prince WIlliam Sound, which is packed with melting glaciers and narrow fjords, where steep slopes are at ...
(JUNEAU, Alaska) -- One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier has started to release rainwater and snowmelt ...
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