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

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

Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...

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

After waters peaked at 16.65 feet, newly installed HESCO barriers and early alerts spared schools, homes and businesses from ...

A record-setting glacial outburst on Juneau's Mendenhall River this week inundated low-lying homes and damaged a road bridge, but the community avoided the kind of destruction seen last year, ...

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