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Melting Alaskan glacier floods Juneau as emergency wall is tested
When Alaska's Ice Surrenders to Water 65 feet, breaking records set just the year before when a sudden glacial lake outburst ...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A flood warning was issued Saturday after an outburst from a glacial lake in Alaska's capital. Suicide Basin is a side basin of the Mendenhall Glacier above the city of Juneau.
Mendenhall Glacier in the Tongass National Forest near the city of Juneau, Alaska, on July 6, 2021. Meltwater from a glacial outburst near Juneau, Alaska, is flooding nearby neighborhoods, and ...
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This U.S. State Has More Lakes Than Anywhere Else—With Over 3 Million to Explore
The number of glittering glacial lakes is just one of the reasons to book an unforgettable trip to Alaska.
More than 100 homes in Alaska’s capital Juneau have been damaged by a glacial dam outburst north of the city, an increasingly frequent phenomenon exacerbated by climate change. The flooding began on ...
Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions once occupied by the glacier, creating large lakes. Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines ...
(CNN) — A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacial lake is causing a river to surge to a record level and is threatening significant flooding in the state capital of Juneau for the third ...
(THE CONVERSATION) 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.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man inadvertently filmed his own drowning on a glacial lake with a GoPro camera mounted on his helmet, but authorities who recovered the camera have not yet found his ...
Welcome to BASIN Glacial Waters, Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise's new thermal wellness spa overlooking the emerald-green lake ...
When traveling between Willmar and Alexandria, sometimes the slower route proves to be more beautiful. The Glacial Ridge Trail was first designated a state trail in May 1969, and is one of dozens of ...
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