On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

With more than 100 square kilometers of glacial coverage, the area plays a vital role in maintaining water levels in source lakes that feed the Yellow River. "With global warming, the glaciers of ...

According to Icimod, as many as 47 glacial lakes among over 25,000 in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region are potentially dangerous. They lie within the Koshi, Gandaki, and Karnali river basins of Nepal, ...

Glacial lake outburst floods, or GLOF, are a sudden release of water from a lake fed by glacier melt that has formed at the side, in front, within, beneath, or on the surface of a glacier. Experts ...

The devastating flash flood and mudslide that overwhelmed Thame village in Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality-5 on Friday afternoon has been confirmed to be the result of a glacial lake outburst.

The number of glacial lakes in the Satluj river catchment area has almost doubled from 562 in 2019 to 1,048 in 2023, according to satellite data analysed in a recent study by the Centre on Climate ...

Drone footage shows a glacial flood engulfing the Skálm river bridge in Klausturvegur, Iceland, on July 27. Iranian missiles hit a hospital and wound over 200. Israel threatens Iran's top leader ...

According to the ISRO, of the 2,431 lakes larger than 10 hectares identified during 2016-17, 676 glacial lakes have notably expanded since 1984.