Watery Mess Parts of Alaska's state capital of Juneau flooded earlier this week after a melting glacier near the city and ...

A scary incident at Royal Caribbean’s private island serves as an important reminder about the dangers of distractions.

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

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

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

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

Glacial outburst flooding from the Mendenhall Glacier in 2024 impacted hundreds of homes in Juneau, prompting the development of the Juneau Glacial Flood Dashboard.

New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented widespread damage after an ice dam at the nearby Mendenhall Glacier ...

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.

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

A wave of water that gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake and sent a river surging to a new record level is causing flooding ...