For many years, scientists have been discussing whether the population in mountain regions is increasingly at risk from meltwater floods, as melting glaciers release more and more water. A small ...

A rush of glacial floodwater swept down Alaska’s Mendenhall River on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation warnings in parts of Juneau, seeping through flood barriers and flowing into a few ...

Tso Rolpa glacial lake at 4,580m has grown seven times in size in the past 60 years due to global warming. Photo: RASTRARAJ BHANDARI Some 15 million people worldwide are at risk from flooding caused ...

HUNZA, Pakistan, Nov 22 (Reuters) - On the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan's mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures the ice's movement and snaps photos.

Research at the University of Dundee found that such incidents have increased three-fold since 2011. Research at the University of Dundee has suggested that glacial lakes bursting their dams will lead ...

The Sisters Nugget notes that Carver Lake, a lake that rests above the base of the South Sister, is held back by a terminal moraine dam, which may eventually fail. The lake is about 20 miles from the ...

The Manitoba Great Lakes–Winnipeg, Winnipegosis, and Manitoba– are smaller than their more famous Great Lake neighbors to the south, but they can claim more wetlands along their shores. Forty-three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme floods caused by meltwater from glaciers are likely to cause more fatalities globally due to climate change, according to ...