Earlier this month, a flash flood in Sikkim killed at least 34 ... who has been studying glaciers in the Himalayan region for over a decade. The Geological Survey of India lists 9,575 glaciers ...

The United Nations Secretary-General warned has warned that Himalayan glaciers are “caving in,” urging immediate action to ...

An environment conference has opened in Nepal to discuss global climate change, including the impact on the highest Himalayan ...

Lhonak Lake is a large glacial bullet-shaped water body that sits at the foot of a melting glacier ... the ecologically sensitive Himalayan region is prone to flash floods and landslides, and ...

Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain ranges ... Integrated Mountain Development warned that flash floods and avalanches would grow more likely ...

Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods and landslides in India’s Himalayan region ... warming contributes to the melting of glaciers there. In February 2021, flash floods killed nearly ...

The municipality has also said that there is no further risk of flash floods or mudslides from ... and permafrost in the Himalayan region. According to the International Centre for Integrated ...

Melting of glaciers will cause dangerous flooding and water shortages for nearly 2 billion people who live downstream of rivers that originate in the Himalayas, report says. Water forms under ...

Changes in melt could also affect the safety and productivity of the region’s expanding ... it lifts the glacier ice and then drains immediately, like a flash flood,” says Bolch.

Nepal will mark the rapid melting of a crucial glacier with a ... but Monday’s service is the first in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which holds the third largest volume of ice on Earth after the ...