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Director Colleen Thurston has won awards at OKC's deadCenter Film Festival and Tulsa's upcoming Circle Cinema Film Festival ...
The largest campground at Rocky Mountain National Park re-opened this week, bringing a pleasant surprise to campers who just ...
GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised ...
The outburst event of Zhuonai Lake caused large environmental impacts on the region: 1) the desertification of the exposed lakebed of Zhuonai Lake; 2) the significant expansion of the three downstream ...
As a result, space once occupied by ice is filled with meltwater, forming what scientists call moraine-dammed lakes. Debris left by the glacier acts like a dam, blocking the outlet.
By analyzing satellite images of almost 1700 documented glacial lake floods in 13 glacier regions around the world over a period from 1990 to 2023 they found that the areas of ice dammed lakes became ...
In the Himalayas, Alaska and Patagonia in particular, the potential danger posed by moraine-dammed lakes for settlements and infrastructure downstream has increased as their volume continues to grow.
A moraine-dammed lake, the outlet stream of the lake feeds into water bodies that go on to form the river Teesta. The Pangong Tso, a 134-km chain of lakes, is part of the disputed buffer zone ...
Looking for a way to explore Rocky Mountain National Park? Check out the Glacier Creek Trail and the surrounding paths around Sprague Lake.
The Chorabari glacial lake outburst in Kedarnath in 2013 and the South Lhonak glacial lake outburst in 2023 were moraine-dammed, while the Rishiganga-Dhauliganga deluge in Chamoli in February 2021 ...
ISRO's satellite imagery shows significant expansion of glacial lakes in Indian Himalayan river basins, aiding in climate change adaptation.