The melting Alaska glacier that wears the scars of climate change
The fourth-largest outburst flood in Juneau’s history crested in August. Soon after, Eran Hood stood at the edge of an enormous empty basin in the mountains above the city.
Just a day or so before, the basin had been full of 16-billion gallons of water.
“This right here is the source of all the trouble in Juneau,” said Hood, an environmental scientist at the University of Alaska Southeast who has been coming to this spot for 15 years to study an annual flood triggered by rapid melting on the Mendenhall Glacier.
