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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Himalayan glaciers are ... The study warned that as glaciers melt faster than ever before, the region is put under increased threats of flash floods and avalanches, apart from affecting the ...

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 ...

All that water has to go somewhere, and some of it is getting trapped in large, unstable lakes that can burst and cause deadly flash floods downstream. Glacial lake floods are a growing threat.

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 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 ...

Recent studies indicate that Himalayan glaciers have been losing over eight billion tons of ice ... melt, is a stark reminder of these interconnected hazards. Similarly, the 2012 Seti River flash ...

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 ...