Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flooding from a release of water and snowmelt at Mendenhall Glacier covered some roads and threatened homes along the Mendenhall ...

Ascend over the colossal "river of ice" that defines the landscape of Juneau, Alaska. The drone glides across the crystalline blue surface of the Mendenhall Glacier, a 13-mile-long remnant of the ...

Every summer, people living near the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, keep a close eye on the water level. When the river level begins to rise rapidly, it’s a sign that Suicide Basin, a small ...

Marybeth Holleman and Naomi Klouda will present ‘Touchstones of Glaciers and Bears: Navigating a Changing Climate’ at Valley Library on March 8.

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 ...

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 ...

Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a glacier lake outburst flood.” Emergency management and National Weather Service ...

People view Mendenhall Glacier from the Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center area, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, in Juneau, Alaska. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP) (AP) — Residents in some parts of ...

(CNN) — For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city of Juneau. But, flood barriers installed by the city managed to ...

Glacier retreat across Alaska could expand the state’s glacial lakes to more than four times their current area, according to ...

A rush of glacial floodwater swept down Alaska’s Mendenhall River on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation warnings in parts of Juneau, seeping through flood barriers and flowing into a few ...