The Government of Jammu and Kashmir is taking proactive steps to mitigate the risks associated with Glacial Lake Outburst ...

Besides, three moderate-risk lakes and seven low-risk lakes have also been identified. Expeditions have been conducted to ...

Satellite analyses by Suhora Technologies, which monitors 33,000 lakes across the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra basins, ...

The Government of Jammu and Kashmir is taking significant steps to address the growing risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods ...

The Jammu and Kashmir government is taking steps to mitigate the risks associated with Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) ...

Aerial photograph showing flooding in the Traverse Gap, the former southern outlet of Glacial Lake Agassiz and the source of River Warren. Ice-covered Lake Traverse (Mde Hdakiŋyaŋ), a natural ...

Kettle holes may be found if a block of 'dead ice' is partially buried by fluvio-glacial deposits. When the ice melts a hole is left which may fill with water to form a kettle hole lake.

Water from the melting ice often drains into depressions once occupied by the glacier, creating large lakes. Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines ...

First in the world to develop scientific approaches to glacial lake outburst There have been concerns in Bhutan and Nepal in recent years about the danger of glacial lake outburst floods resulting ...