flash floods, and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). “The changes we see in the field are literally heartbreaking,” glaciologist Heidi Sevestre, secretariat at the Arctic Monitoring and ...
In J&K itself, the authors identified 332 proglacial lakes, of which 65 have differing (nontrivial) glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) risks. A proglacial lake is formed when water from a melting ...
As glaciers melt faster, they also pose potentially lethal risks, like too much water behind dams, landslides and debris ...