Over a year after a GLOF ravaged parts of Sikkim and washed away the Teesta-III hydel project, a proposal to build a new ...

National Disaster Management Authority has anticipated that a glacial lake outburst flood GLOF, Landslides and Flash Flood is expected in Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan due to increasing glacier ...

Increasing demand for food production coupled with inefficient irrigation practices is exacerbating water scarcity.

An international study has cautioned that the growing number of hydroelectric projects near glacier lakes in the Himalayas ...

The Sikkim government had told the National Green Tribunal last year that a cloudburst had possibly preceded the glacial lake ...

The flood devastated the Teesta Hydroelectric Project Stage-III (1200 MW), washed away the dam and flooded the underground ...

With climate-driven disasters on the rise, urgent action is needed to modernise flood resilience strategies worldwide.

The GLOF in Sikkim underscores climate crisis impacts; while dam redesign aims to enhance safety, experts warn mega hydro ...

led to cascading floods that killed 55 people and washed away a 1,200 megawatt (MW) hydropower dam. The event was identified as a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), which is a sudden release of water ...

Such glacial outburst floods are relatively recent events at Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier. The first recorded outburst flood there was in 2011 , according to officials.

In October 2023, a multi-hazard cascade in the Sikkim Himalayas was triggered when earth and stones, which had accumulated ...