This rapid expansion increases risk of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) for downstream communities. Published in journal Elsevier's Global and Planetary Change, the study analysed satellite ...

As global warming accelerates, the increasing number of supraglacial lakes and the need to accurately measure their depths ...

This is the moment the Portage glacier near Whittier, Alaska calved and crashed into the frozen Portage Lake, causing huge ...

Based on the latest information displayed, Pakistan came after Central American country Belize and Italy on the list of the most fragile countries to ...

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 (GLOF) ravaged ...

Vehicle reservations for Glacier National Park’s upcoming summer season will be available starting Feb. 13, at 8 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. Reservations will be required this year for the ...

The last leg of the journey, a ride north and west from Watertown to Webster and Waubay, revealed water in every low spot – from sheetwater in farm pastures to large, expansive fishing lakes.

At the southern tip of Glacier National Park in Southern Patagonia sits one of the region's most magnificent glaciers, Perito Moreno. Unlike 95 percent of Earth's glaciers that are gradually ...

cloudbursts and glacial lake outbursts. “Inadequate urban drainage systems and the rampant encroachment on natural waterways exacerbate the situation, as floodplains originally designed to absorb ...