University of Alaska Southeast environmental science professor Eran Hood recalled that it was a sunny summer day in 2011 when an unexpected and potentially perilous situation began to unfold. The ...

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

“A glacial outburst has occurred at Suicide Basin. The basin is releasing and flooding is expected along Mendenhall Lake and ...

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...

Update, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday: The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.

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

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

A historic flood is unfolding in Juneau, Alaska, as massive water releases from Suicide Basin threaten to break all previous ...

The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska’s capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those ...