SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has acknowledged the growing threat of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in the Union Territory amid rising global temperatures, accelerated glacier melt ...

Dehradun, Oct 13 (PTI) The Uttarakhand government on Tuesday announced the successful installation of a pilot early-warning system equipped with advanced weather sensors at a glacial lake in Chamoli ...

Dehradun, Sep 29 (PTI) To mitigate the threat of potential "Glacial Lake Outburst Floods" (GLOF) in Uttarakhand, monitoring and early warning systems are being installed in lakes, a process that comme ...

Fast retreating of glaciers due to global warming and pollution has created glacial lakes in various mountain ranges of J&K, ...

The project aims to significantly reduce ​the threat of future disastrous floods, though the draining work could take up to ...

The unprecedented devastation and loss of lives in the wake of the Nepal flash floods have set off the alarm bells for Himachal Pradesh, with researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) ...

A private group working with the Indian government is concerned that the Himalayan water cycle supplying south Asia’s rivers will dry up, but not before delivering apocalyptic flash floods.

Kathmandu (Nepal) (AFP) – Nepal's foreign minister and the UN climate chief on Saturday warned of the growing threat from global warming to the Himalayas, as rescuers race to find thousands missing ...

The death toll from the massive flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border rose to 392 on Thursday, as rescue teams waded through mud and raced against time to trace more than 1,400 people still ...

A senior Geological Survey of India official warns that the Himalayas are vulnerable to cascading disasters, where one high-altitude event can trigger a chain of destructive events downstream, as ...