The event was identified as a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), which is a sudden release of water from a lake fed by glacial melt. The research, published in Science, explores the many drivers of ...

A fully functional Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Early Warning System (EWS) will also be established to enhance preparedness. The personnel will be trained in the operation and interpretation of EWS ...

J&K authorities are intensifying monitoring efforts in the Himalayas to mitigate the risks of glacial lake outburst floods which pose a substantial threat to residential areas and infrastructure ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Jammu and Kashmir government is taking steps to mitigate the risks associated with Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in the Union Territory. The initiative involved a phased approach ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In the morning, he could barely recognise his village: in his absence, a massive glacial lake outburst flood had wrecked the valley in 1985. Glacial lakes are formed as the result of retreating ...

The great continental ice sheets were melting very fast in the time of Glacial ... the lake level was rising. A few probably did while the lake was draining, but even then, the flood probably ...