“This flood this year is the scenario we all wanted — we all hoped for.” - Anne Lind, a Juneau resident who expressed relief that the glacial outburst flood was milder than expected.
Glacial lake outburst flooding begins on the Mendenhall River below the Mendenhall Glacier on Aug 11, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
By Corinne Smith
Alaska’s capital city has issued an evacuation advisory for the densely-populated Mendenhall Valley area on Wednesday as glacial outburst flooding begins.
Officials and the public are closely watching the Mendenhall Glacier, where climate-change driven melting results in water filling an ice-dammed lake called Suicide Basin each year. That lake eventually bursts and billions of gallons of water are released down the Mendenhall River, threatening suburban neighborhoods nearby.
Reject stickers await ballot envelopes Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at the Division 1 office of the Alaska Division of Elections in Juneau, Alaska during counting for Alaska’s special U.S. House primary election. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
By James Brooks
More than 2,800 Alaskans are on a list of alleged noncitizens registered to vote in the state, according to a document obtained by the Alaska Beacon via a public records request.
The list, dated Friday, was released after the division removed more than 3,000 Alaskans from the state’s active voter list following an unusual data-sharing arrangement with the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Arctic sea is seen in 2018 by Demarcation Bay off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastline. (Photo by Danielle Brigida/U.S. Fish and WIldlife Service)
By Yereth Rosen
The Trump administration has pulled federal support from the Arctic Report Card, an annual, peer-reviewed report that has been published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since 2006.
NOAA will no longer provide administrative support for the report, though NOAA scientists and programs will continue to collect climate data, said a statement released by the agency on Tuesday.
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