Breaches in glacial lake dams threaten millions around the world, and scientists are investigating how climate change might ...
A second study, awaiting publication in a peer-reviewed journal, catalogs more than 150 glacial flood outbursts in history and recent times. It's a threat Americans and Europeans rarely think ...
Glaciers are sensitive to rising temperatures, and “glacial lake outburst floods” from the melting ice are a “major hazard and can result in significant loss of life,” a paper published in ...
As ice sheets from glaciers melt, dozens of lakes around the world risk overflowing, causing potentially deadly avalanches ...
Amid threat of glacial lake floods, analysts say a lack of information sharing among China, India and Nepal is hampering ...
More extreme and frequent rainfall due to global warming means river flooding is a growing threat to millions of people worldwide. While there is a large body of research on how climate change ...
15 million people worldwide are at the risk of flooding triggered by glacial lakes. The highest of those exposed to the threat, around 3 million people, are from India, followed by Pakistan ...
The threat of flooding later this week continues to increase across much of California. The Weather Prediction Center now has a Level 3 of 4, moderate risk, for excessive rainfall late Thursday ...
While many shoreline Asian megacities were already at risk of flooding, the study suggests ... if the pace of greenhouse gas emissions increases, the threat becomes more imminent, the authors ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California and other parts of the West girded Friday for floods and blizzards from the latest winter storm to pound the U.S., while thousands of people in Michigan shivered ...
About 15 million people across the planet live in regions that could be affected by flooding caused by melting glaciers – as ...
