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The Wardens are making their way back to the region with a wonderful show lined up for the folks in Quill Lake on April 4. In honour of the event, we present an earlier article and conversation in ...
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 ...
The focus of this course will be on the geomorphological processes and the landforms associated with glaciers, permafrost, periglacial and slope environments. The course also has relevance for ...
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 country's third largest lake is home to many beautiful rocky and sandy beaches, though water temperatures are chilly—rarely topping 73 degrees Fahrenheit, even in summer. You'll find ...
A well-documented historical case occurred in 1941, when a massive avalanche crashed into Laguna Palcacocha, a glacial lake in the Peruvian Andes. The resulting wave breached the moraine dam, sending ...
“We hear about melting of ice caps and Himalayan glaciers, but our own lake is also trying to alert us.” Every dawn through most of January and early February, Mr. Miyasaka and dozens of his ...
JAMMU, Mar 27: The Government of Jammu and Kashmir is taking proactive steps to mitigate the risks associated with Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in the Union Territory. The initiative involved ...
Paul Quill, 45, was a director at Deloitte Australia when he claimed almost 400 sham work expenses between August 2018 and February 2022 to the tune of $2.7m in an elaborate scheme designed to fun ...
The Punta Rocca glacier near Canazei, in the Italian Alps in northern Italy, where a huge chunk broke loose in July 2022. [AP Photo/Luca Bruno] A newly published scientific study, (“Community ...
This was a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), one of the most feared risks in the Himalayas. Satellite images before/after of the village of Chungthang, Sikkim, and the Teesta III hydroelectric dam, ...
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