Using hydrodynamic simulations, the researchers modelled a worst-case scenario of a sudden moraine-dam breach. The results ...

(CN) --- Spurred by climate change, glacial retreat is intensifying across much of the Eastern Himalayas --- known as Earth’s “Third Pole” --- threatening vulnerable downstream communities with ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado Boulder and Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan ...

An estimated 15 million people are threatened by floods that happen when glaciers melt rapidly. It's a growing global threat from climate change. Communities in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal are ...

A view of the project from across the Langtang Valley showing the receding Langtang Lirung Glacier, and the location of the intake, penstock and powerhouse. There is a drop of 300m, and the turbines ...

Some lakes are beautiful, and then there are lakes so intensely blue that you begin to question whether nature really created ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.

(THE CONVERSATION) Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes and into the Mendenhall River, which runs through town.