Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.
New research has tracked the evolution of a glacier lake dammed by a glacier surge using satellite images, to help better understand its life cycle and the hazard it presents to nearby communities.
The first World Day for Glaciers is less a celebration than a reckoning as years of record, rapid glacier retreat means many ...
As glaciers melt faster, they also pose potentially lethal risks, like too much water behind dams, landslides and debris ...
Glaciers are among the most visible indicators of climate change, and their rapid melting poses a severe threat to ecosystems, infrastructure, and communities worldwide.
Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass ...
Glacier-fed streams could well become greener in the future. © 2022 EPFL/Mike Styllas - CC-BY-SA 4.0 A pioneering study has ...
With glaciers disappearing at an alarming rate, 2025 has been named the Year of International Glacier Preservation. Here's ...
The first ever World Day for Glaciers on 21 March 2025 will sound the alarm that accelerating glacier melt risks unleashing ...
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