In Alaska’s capital, a retreating glacier has turned from postcard backdrop into a recurring threat, sending sudden torrents of water through neighborhoods that once treated it as scenery. The latest ...
JUNEAU, Alaska – Juneau is digging out after days of heavy rain from an atmospheric river that partially melted more than 7 feet of snow that fell across the Alaska panhandle. Large amounts of snow ...
Juneau residents have spent the last few weeks preparing for the annual glacier outburst flooding event from Suicide Basin. According to the National Weather Service in Juneau, as of Monday afternoon, ...
One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier has started to release rainwater and snowmelt downstream, ...
Climate change is making atmospheric rivers more extreme and researchers have traced a 295% increase in landslides reported ...
Update, 2:30 p.m. Monday: City and tribal officials say they will begin hanging informational door flyers in Mendenhall Valley neighborhoods in the flood zone and launch a flood information hotline ...
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 ...
Floodwaters from a glacial outburst poured through Juneau, Alaska, Wednesday, but the state’s capital seemed to have dodged catastrophic flooding that many officials feared. The Suicide Basin, ...
John Bressette joined the city just before record snowfall, followed by rain and flooding, pushed the community to declare a disaster and issue evacuation advisories downtown.
It looks like freezing temperatures will leave us for a little while and rain will return? Meteorologist Spence Fielding ...
“Alaska’s greatest resources aren’t just buried in the ground,” said protestor Atagan Hood.