The objectives of NGRMP project are to prevent loss of life and reduce economic loss and damage to critical infrastructure due to Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) and similar events as well as ...

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

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

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

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

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

A raft of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in his early days in office has put several programmes across ...

Accelerating Glacier Melting Himalayan glaciers are melting at a pace that has not been witnessed before in history. This ...

The Sikkim unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister of Environment, ...

A flood protection plan requiring 466 property owners to pay nearly $6,300 each for barriers to build a semipermanent levee ...

About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great ...

A ribbon lake is a large, narrow lake found in a U-shaped valley. It forms in a hollow that a glacier has eroded more deeply. Misfit streams or rivers meander through the flat, wide U-shaped floor.