The Administrative Secretary of the Ladakh Disaster Management Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (DMRRR) Department, Amit Sharma, today convened a meeting to address potential threats of ...
To test this further, the research team used the United States Geological Survey Catalog to identify 11,733 earthquakes of magnitude >4 and 67 temporally known glacial lake outburst floods since ...
In 1941, thousands of people died in Huaraz when the natural dam on a lake above the city gave way. Now, melting glaciers are raising the chances of it happening again Photographs by Harriet ...
Rising temperatures have increased the risk of glacial lake bursts of the kind that devastated the Kedarnath valley in 2013 ...
An analysis of glacial data spanning four decades has provided valuable insights into the changes taking place in the ...
After a warm start to the week across the Northeast, attention has now turned to the threat of more heavy rain that brought the threat of flooding to millions of people across the region.
WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — The threat for severe thunderstorms with high winds and possible tornadoes failed to materialize on Thursday, in large part due to clouds and frequent showers that knocked ...
Government today accorded sanction to the constitution of Focussed Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) Monitoring Committee ...
Severe storms are battering parts of the South with torrential rain and damaging winds, threatening tornadoes and creating “life-threatening” flooding. Crews were responding to “10 to 15 ...
A potential failure of the Panguitch Lake Dam in southern Utah's Garfield County has residents closely monitoring the Level 2 ...
Dehradun, Mar 27 (PTI) The Uttarakhand government has formed two teams of experts to conduct a risk assessment and survey of five glacial lakes in the state that are highly vulnerable to "outburst ...