In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40 ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center could soon see an increase in staff, according to a city official in Juneau.

The agency received $4.75 million, but city officials say more money is needed for a fleshed-out feasibility study to assess ...

has been hit by several flash floods in recent years from a glacial lake dammed by ice on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier. Those floods, including in 2024, were driven by a melting glacier that slowly ...

"We generally see streams recover to a point where we didn't even know there was a dam there," Jeremy Dietrich, an aquatic ecologist at the New York State Water Resources Institute, told Yale ...

I was a U.S. Forest Service park ranger at Mendenhall Glacier for 14 years until I retired in 2018. Having lived in Juneau since 1969, I have watched the dramatic changes in glacial ice and the ...

Cup runneth over: Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pemmy Majodina, recently reassured the public the Vaal Dam's sluice gates are working. The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is ...