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 ...

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 ...

About 15 million people across the planet live in regions that could be affected by flooding caused by melting glaciers – as ...