For the first time, Juneau’s famous Mendenhall Glacier is not touching Mendenhall Lake, which was hidden beneath a thick sheet of glacial ice only a couple of hundred years ago. Scientists say this ...

Did you know that Juneau, Alaska sits on one of the largest wilderness areas in the United States? The Tongass National Forest spans 500 miles across Alaska’s Inside Passage region and it is the ...

A researcher from Italy is missing after being swept into a hole in the ice on Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday. The agency said in an online report that wildlife ...

A rush of glacial floodwater swept down Alaska’s Mendenhall River on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation warnings in parts of Juneau, seeping through flood barriers and flowing into a few ...

For three years in a row, Juneau has had unprecedented flooding in August from a melting glacier. This year, officials built a levee to protect the city. It seems to have helped, but it's temporary.

Every year for about a decade, the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska, has flooded from meltwater buildup on a nearby glacier. Those floods were minor until 2023, when a couple of dozen homes in ...