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Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
An overflowing glacial lake caused a surge in the Mendenhall River on Wednesday, prompting flood alerts and evacuations in Juneau.
An international team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has tracked changes in more than 114,000 ...
Meltwater from a glacier lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate ...
By Wednesday morning, the floodwaters racing down from what’s called Suicide Basin rose to record levels, faster than ...
Could it be that our Paleolithic forebears were more than artists and hunters, that they were also the world’s earliest ...
Changes in water levels beneath Earth's surface caused by glacier snowmelt and rainfall could be responsible for triggering ...
Glaciers in Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta and the Swiss Alps have set grim records over the past four years, ...
Hot weather maps show when a scorching heatwave will return to the UK. The country has already experienced three extended periods of hot weather this summer.
These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed light on how human-generated emissions will shape our planet’s future.
As announced at the Waccasassa flood risk meeting, the District is offering an expanded 90-day public feedback period – 30 days are typical – that will allow for comment until October 1.