The Centre has approved the implementation of a new National Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) Risk Mitigation Project (NGRMP) in Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Uttarakhand. In a ...

New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): The Central government has approved National Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Risk Mitigation Project (NGRMP) for its implementation in Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal ...

The environment ministry’s expert appraisal committee (EAC) has cleared a proposal to construct a 118-metre high dam in the same place where a devastating glacial lake outburst flood ... water ...

Among these, Khanchung and South Lhonak lakes were found to be the most hazardous, with possible peak flood discharges exceeding 9,500 cubic meters per second. How do GLOFs occur? A GLOF occurs when a ...

Aerial photograph showing flooding in the Traverse Gap, the former southern outlet of Glacial Lake Agassiz and the ... and eastern North Dakota. Its waters were contained by the ice sheet to ...

Madhya Pradesh: Cheetah family in India grows to 26 as Kuno welcomes 2 new cubs ...

The collapse of a 14.7-million cubic metre mass of rock, ice and sediment into the South Lhonak glacial lake was the ... At around 10.30 pm, the flood water reached an Indo-Tibetan Border Police camp, ...

Lake Shasta waters lapped 35 feet from its top after an atmospheric river ... the weather service forecasted. Anderson Creek floods property along Balls Ferry Road south of Anderson on Monday ...

Newcastle University researchers have been awarded funding to assess the risk facing Bhutan from glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). Bhutan is the most vulnerable country globally to GLOFs because ...

Supra-glacial debris cover is key to glacier ablation through increasing (thin debris layer) or decreasing (thick debris layer) melt rates, thereby regulating the mass balance of a glacier and its ...

The NWS Eureka CA issued a flood watch at 9:31 p.m. on Monday valid for Tuesday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. The NWS adds, "Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible." "There will be an ...