As climate change brings more rapid melting of glaciers, build-ups of meltwater in mountain areas are worsening, leading to growing risk of devastating glacial lake outburst floods ...

The modeling showed that an outburst flood from Longbasaba and Pida lakes would last for about 5.5 hours and have a peak discharge of about 3-5 × 10⁴ m³/s at about 1.8 hours after the beginning of the ...