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What Is a Glacial Outburst Flood? Alaska’s Suicide Basin Explained


Meltwater from a glacial lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate change destabilizes ice and glacial lakes fill with more meltwater

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