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

Due to Arctic warming, fossilized microbes buried in Arctic ice and soil may wake up. The fear is that these pathogens will ...

The cuts landed in Alaska villages reeling from melting permafrost and coastal flooding ... It would serve as a community gathering point and facility for the county emergency management agency to use ...

Byers, University of Colorado Boulder In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting ... By the time the disaster was over, more than 50 people had died. Juneau, Alaska, has been ...

By the time the disaster was ... Juneau, Alaska, 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 ...

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise ... By the time the disaster was over, more than 50 people had died. Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several flash ...

Juneau, Alaska ... melting glacier that slowly filled a basin below it until the basin’s ice dam broke. Avalanches, rockfalls and slope failures can also trigger glacial lake outburst floods. These ...

Boulder (US), Mar 25 (The Conversation) In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures ... By the time the disaster was over, more than 50 people had died. Juneau, ...

yet permafrost thaw is not recognized by the federal government as a natural hazard making it harder for people in Alaska to obtain disaster relief funding. In addition, Alaska is decades behind ...

To see the melting for myself, I travel to Fairbanks, Alaska, and from there north to Prudhoe Bay, where two cold-adapted scientists have been probing the permafrost. Tom Osterkamp, a geophysicist ...