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

Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

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

DEHRADUN: The hydroelectric projects will not be affected in the event of a glacier lake burst in future. To ensure safety, ...

The study underlines the need for both risk mitigation strategies and early warning systems against GLOFs, the sudden release ...

Additional water or pressure, or structural weakness, can cause both natural and manmade dams to burst, sending a mass of floodwater surging down the rivers and streams fed by the glacier.

Around 10,000 years ago as the ice age advance began to melt, glacial deposits or drift were left behind. These glacial deposits were of two kinds: Till - mixed or unstratified materials directly ...

Proposal documents and the minutes of the January 10 meeting showed that one of the key concerns of the Environment ...

Researchers have now pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood in a bid to better prepare for future ...