The Central Government has sanctioned the National Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Risk Mitigation Project across vulnerable ...

The deadly South Lhonak Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in Sikkim in October 2023 was triggered by the collapse of 14.7 ...

India sanctions Rs 85 crore for GLOF mitigation in Arunachal and Sikkim. Project aims to reduce risks and enhance early ...

Over a year after a GLOF ravaged parts of Sikkim and washed away the Teesta-III hydel project, a proposal to build a new ...

Crucially, the study found no evidence of a “triggering cloudburst event” in the vicinity of the lake. The Sikkim government ...

Sikkim’s Teesta III dam rebuilding project gets the nod of the Environment Ministry’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC), but a ...

An international study has investigated the causes and impacts of the devastating flood disaster in the Himalayas in October ...

A new study reveals a significant loss of glaciers in a section of the eastern Himalayas in Arunachal Pradesh.

Study reveals rapid glacier loss in eastern Himalayas, impacting freshwater availability and increasing risk of glacial lake ...

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

An international study has cautioned that the growing number of hydroelectric projects near glacier lakes in the Himalayas ...