When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.
Melting snow, coupled with yesterday’s rain, caused an ice dam in the Pleasant River to give way. Just after 12:30 p.m., ...
Today marks a historic confluence as we celebrate the first-ever World Glacier Day followed tomorrow by World Water Day. As communities worldwide celebrate our planet’s most precious resource, the ...
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Rapid Ice Melt Triggers Floods, Evacuations in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk RegionRescuers evacuated residents in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region after unseasonably warm weather caused river ice to rapidly melt ...
At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's Huayna Potosí glacier is thin, brittle with altitude. The wind ...
Friday, March 21 marks the inaugural World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations to ...
High in the Andes Mountains, glaciers have fed life for centuries. Their frozen stores of water support millions of people ...
Vast mountain glacial flows created in the ice age in the US ... killed at least 55 people and washed away a major hydropower dam. A glacial lake in the Andes mountains in Peru is steadily ...
Global warming is accelerating glacier melt, decreasing snow cover ... For many of them, a portion of a glacier moraine acts as a dam. If that wall gives way, massive floods could result.
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