Uttarakhand experienced its worst glacial lake outburst floods disaster in 2013 at Kedarnath ... and the potential GLOF threat will progressively increase in Uttarakhand.

Frequent flash floods claim lives as well as destroy properties. In the past, due to less development and population, flash floods affected the communities less. Now, flash floods simply happen due to ...

Recent glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayas highlight the need for proactive climate action to protect vulnerable mountain communities. India has already experienced the scale of damage ...

These fires have claimed three lives, and authorities have charged 61 individuals with deliberate arson. The intense heat and ...

For example, climate warming poses an increased threat of natural hazards from the mountain cryosphere, such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), avalanches, slope failures, debris flows, or a ...

Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan - As we make our way towards Pakistan's first organic village, an intense one-hour trek ...

The flood threat abated in Kashmir as the weather improved ... where some 56 villages were affected by flash floods and overflowing of Pohru stream, has started to improve. Officials said that ...

More than 25 million people are under the threat of severe storms Monday from Dallas to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. “Multiple strong/potentially long-track tornadoes, very large to giant hail ...

Tanzania said a cyclone that made landfall on Saturday had lost its strength and was no longer a threat to the country ... by torrential downpours and floods that have left more than 400 people ...

n\n\n\n Unfazed by the daily struggles, the greatest fear of the family lies in the looming specter of recurrent floods that haunts them every year. With every lash of rain and an imminent threat ...