Ascend over the colossal "river of ice" that defines the landscape of Juneau, Alaska. The drone glides across the crystalline ...

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 ...

Alaska's capital city is waiting and watching as residents anticipate the start of the annual glacial lake outburst flood in a few weeks. Over the next month, Suicide Basin, a ...

The evacuation zone is larger than last year, though forecasters say they expect the flood to be around the same size.

JUNEAU — Floodwaters from the Mendenhall River rushed under Sam and Amanda Hatch’s home last August at then record-levels. After the water receded, their house sank several inches into the saturated ...

After two consecutive years when meltwaters burst out of a basin on Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier and devastated neighborhoods in that part of the capital city, a team of scientists has received a grant ...

In the near future, Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier will withdraw its icy toe from the lake of its making, scientists say. “The lake is about to not have a glacier in it,” said hydrologist Eran Hood of ...

Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and snowmelt in a huge basin dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to flow ...