Tag: #GLOF
Articles tagged with #GLOF
Rasuwa flood likely a GLOF
Deadly Nepal-China border flood could have been glacial lake(s) that burst in Tibet
Nepal’s mountains are melting
Gabions constructed by local lodge owners near Chukhung village in 2016, following an englacial flood from the Lhotse glacier in 2015. The…
Climate change is a disaster in the Nepal Himalaya
Floods, a declining yarsagumba crop and collapse of trekking combine to impoverish farmers in Nepal’s remotest district
A new Cold War in the Himalaya
Glacial lake in the Kangchenjunga region in eastern Nepal near the border with China and India. The Himalaya face the twin threats of climate…
Nepal's glacial lakes in danger of bursting
Tso Rolpa glacial lake at 4,580m has grown seven times in size in the past 60 years due to global heating. Photo: RASTRARAJ BHANDARIA new report…
Forests replace glaciers in the Himalaya
[caption id="attachment54080" align="alignnone" width="900"] Panoramic view of Manang Village and the Gangapurna and Annapurna III Glaciers that…
Tracing past glacial floods in Kangchenjunga
Figure 1. Nangama glacial lake, Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, source of the 1960 glacial lake outburst flood, May 2019. All photos: ALTON C…
Living below Nepal’s melting mountains
Gabions above Chukung with the summit of Lhotse peeking through the clouds last month. All photos: ALTON C BYERSIn an example of local people…
Terrifying assessment of a Himalayan melting
Photo: KUNDA DIXITWhile the global media’s attention is on the Greenland ice sheet, the Arctic and eastern Antarctica, a landmark report…