Dehradun: A study by researchers from the University of Hamburg and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has highlighted a ...

A graphic showing how sediments from under the glacier pile up into buttressing moraines and how the UT Austin-led expedition plans to explore the glacial environment.

About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great ...

An international study has investigated the causes and impacts of the devastating flood disaster in the Himalayas in October ...

The GLOF disaster had resulted in 55 casualties, with 70 people still missing and had caused extensive damage to critical ...

Any material carried or moved by a glacier is called moraine. There are three different types of moraine: ...

These glacial deposits were of two kinds: Till - mixed or unstratified materials directly deposited by ice. Examples of till deposits include drumlins, moraines and erratics. Fluvio-glacial ...

Climate change played a key role in the 'catastrophic' 2023 floods in the Himalayan state of Sikkim in India, a new study ...

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 ...

Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change, leading to the formation and expansion of glacial lakes.

The Centre has approved Rs 150 crore for a project to mitigate risk due to glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in Arunachal ...