Over a year after a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) ravaged parts of Sikkim and washed away the Teesta-III hydel project, a proposal to build a new gravity dam in its place has been approved by the ...

Crucially, the study found no evidence of a “triggering cloudburst event” in the vicinity of the lake. The Sikkim government ...

An international study has cautioned that the growing number of hydroelectric projects near glacier lakes in the Himalayas ...

Sikkim’s Teesta III dam rebuilding project gets the nod of the Environment Ministry’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC), but a ...

On the night of 3 October 2023, a ridge of frozen rock and other debris on the side of the South Lhonak glacier – called a “lateral moraine” – collapsed into the glacial lake. This set off a ...

Studying the shape of Suicide Basin and how it changes could give researchers a better sense of how much water could be ...

The study underlines the need for both risk mitigation strategies and early warning systems against GLOFs, the sudden release ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters.

Sikkim Glacial Lake Outburst Flood was triggered by the collapse of 14.7 million cubic metres of moraine material in South Lhonak Lake, releasing 50 million cubic metres of water. This disaster ...