glacial-lakes

Mapping Kangchenjunga glacial flood risk

Researcher models future floods from dangerous glacial lakes in Nepal to propose risk reduction measures

Lives on the line in the Himalaya

The Thame flood showed climate risk is a given, and Nepal has no choice but to be prepared

Sonia Awale

For destruction, ice is also great and will suffice

Increased risk of glacial lake outburst floods threatens lives and mega projects in the Himalaya

Sonia Awale

DANGER: Nepal’s glacial lakes are filling up

Among all the other disasters we have to be prepared for are glacial lake outburst floods

Non-climate cause of Nanda Devi flood

More than a month after the catastrophic flashflood in Chamoli district of the Indian Himalaya, scientists say that the cause was failure...

More Himalayan tsunamis

The devastating collapse of the Nanda Devi glacier in India’s Uttarakhand state on 7 February that killed hundreds should be a warning for Nepal...

Nepal's glacial lakes in danger of bursting

A new report out this week warns that hundreds of glacial lakes in the Himalaya are in danger of bursting because global...

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