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

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

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

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

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

Officials in Alaska have advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to ...

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

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

A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacial lake is causing a river to surge to a record level and is threatening ...

Sections of Alaska’s capital city are bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters due to rainwater and ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy declared a state disaster due to the "imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a glacier lake ...

The record-breaking surge of water that burst from an Alaskan glacier this week was mostly contained by the temporary levee ...