The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...

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

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

Glacial lake outburst flooding is a flood that's produced by the quick, unexpected release of water from a glacial lake.

Officials say new sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Juneau, Alaska’s capital, have held back record levels of ...

A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...

Emergency officials say new barriers appear to have worked as planned, with only scattered reports of water leaks.

A 'glacial outburst' – a burst of water from a glacial lake – threatened to engulf residents of Juneau, Alaska.

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

An overflowing glacial lake at the foot of Suicide Glacier north of Juneau, Alaska, caused the Mendenhall River to surge to ...

Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a ...