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Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and officials are urging some ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
A historic flood is unfolding in Juneau, Alaska, as massive water releases from Suicide Basin threaten to break all previous ...
As of 7:30 a.m., the National Weather Service said that Suicide Basin is now full to capacity. Monitoring devices "continue to show indications of over-topping the ice dam with icebergs being pulled ...
The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to ...
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 ...
KTOO’s Alix Soliman is part of the team reporting on this year’s glacial outburst flood. She spoke to Alaska Public Media's ...
The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...
Suicide Basin is a side basin of the Mendenhall Glacier above Juneau. Since 2011, the NWS said Suicide Basin has released ...
Recent flooding events around the country this summer have sparked concerns for communities in and near flood zones.