"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As climate change worsens, the frequency of extreme weather events will increase all over the globe. Snow ...

The Recurring Nightmare Returns For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — During the week of Aug. 11, 2025, the Mendenhall Glacier released its yearly glacier lake outburst flood, also known as a jökulhlaup — pronounced yah-cuh-laup. In preparation for ...

Assembly member Wade Bryson asked this as 466 Juneau homeowners along a two-mile stretch of the Mendenhall River wrestle with control over their properties as temporary HESCO barriers are installed ...

Water continues to rise along the Mendenhall River during Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood on Monday, August 5, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) In a special Assembly meeting Thursday, the ...

Peter Bangs says he’s already spent $100,000 of his own money protecting his home from the Mendenhall River and this year’s record flooding wasn’t high enough to reach his property, so he’s not ...

Across the United States, climate change is driving more intense and frequent flooding, putting millions of homes and neighborhoods at growing risk. In our new study, "Effects of Risk-Based Pricing ...

Phil DeLaine and Bob MacKnight have designed an innovative flood protection solution far superior to the most commonly used permanent structures Phil’s pathway to this invention started with a degree ...

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida, Flood Risk America (FRA) prevented elevator flooding in several major buildings with temporary flood barriers. FRA was ...

Under blue skies and sunshine, heavy metal flood barriers between about 4 and 6 feet tall were set up across Boston on Friday. Boston’s flood preparedness demonstration, which doubled as a training ...