In mountain ranges around the world ... 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.

Rocky Mountains, Iceland and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several flash floods in recent years from a glacial lake ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions once occupied by the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University and Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado ...