More than half of the 15 million people at risk of glacial lake outbursts live in four countries: Peru, Pakistan, India and China.

Dehradun: The fragile Himalayan ecosystem in Uttarakhand is under mounting threat as glacial lakes in the region continue to ...

In neighbouring India in October, floods probably triggered by a partial glacial lake burst in the Himalayas, following an avalanche and heavy rains, likely killed 179 people. Many remain missing.

Mitigating disaster. Byers warns that, without adequate preparation, glacial outburst flooding can be deadly. In 1941, a glacial lake in Peru collapsed and sent a surge of water into the downstream ...

Flooding from a glacial lake in the Himalayas on Oct. 5, 2023, left dozens of people dead in India as water swept away bridges, damaged a hydropower station and flooded small towns.

The team had to drill some 2 miles deep to get enough ice to study a 50,000 year time span. After conducting an extensive ...

This mass of sediment and ice, measuring 2,953 feet (900 m) long and 289 feet (88 m) wide, fell into the lake, creating a tsunami approximately 66 feet (20 m) high.

One of the deadliest glacial lake outburst floods occurred in 1941 in the Peruvian city of Huaraz. On December 13 of that year, glacial Lake Palcacocha drained suddenly.

About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great Lakes of today combined. Close 🤍 Donate ...

More than half of the 15 million people at risk of glacial lake outbursts live in ... adding that the method the authors used could be applied to future projections “to understand where ...