Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.

This year, a giant wall of reinforced sandbags erected with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held back the worst ...

During the week of August 11, the Mendenhall Glacier released its yearly glacier lake outburst flood, also known as a ...

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

Residents in some parts of Juneau evacuated ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin ...

A record-setting glacial outburst on Juneau's Mendenhall River this week inundated low-lying homes and damaged a road bridge, but the community avoided the kind of destruction seen last year, ...

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. Since 2011, ...

Flooding in Juneau has affected the National Weather Service’s ability to update weather forecasts on its website and marine ...

HOUSTON — A tropical wave currently churning in the Gulf is racing towards the U.S -Mexico border and will bring scattered rain chances to southeast Texas. The National Hurricane Center is ...