For many years, scientists have been discussing whether the population in mountain regions is increasingly at risk from ...
Scientists have, for the first time, observed a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, releasing over 3,000 billion ...
The research excluded the continental sheets of the Antarctic and Greenland, the world’s biggest ice masses, but concluded that glaciers in the rest of the world had lost 5 per cent of their volume ...
Experts recommend controlled drainage to avoid disaster Mohinder Verma JAMMU, Feb 14: Three glacial lakes in the upper ...
Does flooding from melting glaciers pose a growing danger in the high mountains? Not necessarily, as a study led by the ...
The GLOF disaster had resulted in 55 casualties, with 70 people still missing and had caused extensive damage to critical ...
As global warming accelerates the melting of Himalayan glaciers and increases risks, the expert committee’s decision to ...
The event was identified as a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), which is a sudden release of water from a lake fed by glacial melt. The research, published in Science, explores the many drivers of ...
Dehradun: A study by researchers from the University of Hamburg and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has highlighted a ...
The findings reveal a sharp decline in glacier coverage, with the number of glaciers dropping from 756 in 1988 to 646 by 2020.