On the night of October 3-4, 2023, thousands of people living along the Teesta River in Sikkim and West Bengal, India, had to urgently evacuate their homes as a surge of water and debris rushed down ...

The Narendra Modi government at the Centre has sanctioned ₹550 crore for the damage to the infrastructure and other losses that Sikkim had borne during the devastating Glacial Lake Outburst Flood ...

fastest-growing and most hazardous” glacial lakes in Sikkim, the South Lhonak lake, led to cascading floods that killed 55 people and washed away a 1,200 megawatt (MW) hydropower dam. The event was ...

First in the world to develop scientific approaches to glacial ... lake, analyzing its internal structure and then conducting flood simulations in order to prepare a hazard map and construct an early ...

A glacial burst or glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) refers to an outburst of water from a glacial lake which could lead to severe flooding downstream. Last year in August, a glacial lake ...

“There are indications that this incident is a glacial lake outburst flood, but we are investigating to confirm,” said Arun Bhakta Shrestha, a climate change specialist at the International ...

Public education has helped build awareness of the flood risk, but the disasters continue. The dramatic nature of glacial lake outburst floods captures headlines, but those aren’t the only risks.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed to take emergency measures in view of the destruction caused by a glacial lake outburst flood from the Shisper glacier in Gilgit-Baltistan. He instructed to ...