Breaches in glacial lake dams threaten millions around the world, and scientists are investigating how climate change might ...
A second study, awaiting publication in a peer-reviewed journal, catalogs more than 150 glacial flood outbursts in history and recent times. It's a threat Americans and Europeans rarely think ...
Glaciers are sensitive to rising temperatures, and “glacial lake outburst floods” from the melting ice are a “major hazard and can result in significant loss of life,” a paper published in ...
Amid threat of glacial lake floods, analysts say a lack of information sharing among China, India and Nepal is hampering ...
Dan Shugar, a geoscientist at the University of Calgary who wasn’t part of the two studies, said much of the threat depends simply on how many people live in a glacial flood zone. “In a ...
A second study, awaiting publication in a peer-reviewed journal, catalogs more than 150 glacial flood outbursts in history and recent times. It's a threat Americans and Europeans rarely think ...
About 15 million people across the planet live in regions that could be affected by flooding caused by melting glaciers – as ...
