Glacier National Park has voluntarily withdrawn plans for a multi-phase conservation strategy to replenish a remote alpine ...

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 ...

Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines deposited by the glacier over centuries. Too much water behind these dams or a landslide into the lake can ...

Ohan Breiding's "Belly of a Glacier" combines experimental film and photography to reflect on a moment of loss—and to fight ...

These are special lakes, providing a habitat for migrating waterfowl, including the mysterious common loon with its deep red eye, black head, black-and-white patterned neck and back, and white ...

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

suing German energy giant RWE for a portion of the glacial lake's flood defenses proportionate to its historic global emissions. "The changes we see in the field are literally heartbreaking ...

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 ...

The first World Day for Glaciers is less a celebration than a reckoning as years of record, rapid glacier retreat means many will not survive the 21st century. https ...