Homes and apartments were damaged or destroyed by a flood in Juneau, Alaska, caused by the melting Mendenhall glacier. Climate change is making these kinds of floods a growing issue around the world.

Mendenhall Lake was rising 1-2 inches per ... Juneau’s rate of land rise is about one-half inch per year. At Glacier Bay where Little Ice Age glaciers receded 65 miles up bay in 200 years ...

Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows of buses stand ready to whisk visitors away, with many headed for the area’s crown jewel: the Mendenhall Glacier. A craggy expanse of gray, white and blue ...

But she was back in her third-floor condo overlooking the Mendenhall River, a tranquil, glacier-fed waterway that coursed through her wooded neighborhood before flowing out to sea. By the end of ...

The torrent was caused by glacial lake outburst flooding from the Suicide Basin – an ice- and water-filled basin adjacent to Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier – and flowed into the Mendenhall Lake ...

This is a developing story. A warning about a sizeable collapse of the Mendenhall Glacier, following active calving recently and a large crack on its face, was issued by the U.S. Forest Service on ...

The National Weather Service explains that the Suicide Basin is a side basin of the Mendenhall Glacier above Juneau. "Since 2011," the service says, "Suicide Basin has released glacier lake ...

A glacial outburst flood from the Mendenhall Glacier began Monday, causing water levels to reach up to 16 feet in Juneau by Tuesday. The glacier's Suicide Basin began to peak on Aug. 1 after July ...

Summer flooding is an annual concern for people who live near the Mendenhall Glacier, which last year unleashed flooding that swept away trees and homes, including two buildings that collapsed ...