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 ...
As ice sheets from glaciers melt, dozens of lakes around the world risk overflowing, causing potentially deadly avalanches ...
Amid threat of glacial lake floods, analysts say a lack of information sharing among China, India and Nepal is hampering ...
The threat of flooding later this week continues to increase across much of California. The Weather Prediction Center now has a Level 3 of 4, moderate risk, for excessive rainfall late Thursday ...
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 ...
