"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 ...

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 ...

The Juneau Assembly has approved $2 million in funding to construct a semi-permanent levee along Mendenhall River in order to prepare for future glacial outburst floods. But at a meeting Monday night, ...

When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers stacked along the Mendenhall River largely prevented flooding of the nearby ...

MILTON, Fla. -- The june first start of hurricane season is quickly approaching.State leaders are advocating for flood protection in the areathese projects are ...

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A West Michigan company is tackling the nation's flooding crisis with with a modern plastic barrier system that replaces sandbags. Christina Keller, CEO and Chair of Cascade ...

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 ...

New Orleans modeled its flood defenses on Dutch expertise. Now, through a global network of barrier engineers, the Dutch are ...

The city of Annapolis deployed new flood barriers near City Dock around midday Tuesday to combat a storm that brought high winds and rising floodwaters. City workers installed the flood mitigation ...

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 ...