Sixteen high-risk pro-glacial and supraglacial lakes across the Sikkim Himalayas have emerged as potential sources of ...

Glacial lakes form when meltwater is trapped behind a dam, usually glacial ice, bedrock or a type of moraine (terminal types being an unconsolidated pile of debris at the maximum extent of the glacier ...

Sikkim has completed a field-based study of nine high-risk glacial lakes to assess GLOF threats. The findings identify hidden ...

Glacial moraine-building graphic (IMAGE) University of Texas at Austin Caption A graphic showing how sediments from under the glacier pile up into buttressing moraines and how the UT Austin-led ...

For many years, scientists have been discussing whether the population in mountain regions is increasingly at risk from meltwater floods, as melting glaciers release more and more water. A small ...

“We saw houses vanish in front of our eyes,” says Aadesh, an engineer living in the northern Indian state of Sikkim. One of them was his own. In the early hours of October 4, Lhonak Lake—a Himalayan ...

Sikkim has identified 40 high-hazard glacial lakes, including 16 classified as Category A, amid efforts to reduce GLOF risks.

Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town. Since 2011, ...