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

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...

Alaska's capital of Juneau faced record floodwaters due to rainwater and snowmelt flowing downstream from a basin dammed by ...

Officials say new barriers protected against the kind of major damage inflicted during last year’s destructive Suicide Basin ...

When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...

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

Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.

A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...

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

These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...

For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...