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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 ...
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 ...
Glacial lake outburst debris flows are a special type of debris flow that occurs in high-cold mountain areas. Lakes near modern glacier areas can be divided into glacial-dammed lakes and ...
Looking for a way to explore Rocky Mountain National Park? Check out the Glacier Creek Trail and the surrounding paths around Sprague Lake.