Nepal has thousands of glacial lakes ... A recent GLOF at Birendra Lake in Gorkha underscored the cascading risks of glacier ice collapsing into lakes, triggering devastating overflows.

A little more than six weeks later, another flood hit Nepal, and fierce monsoon rains ... in our atmosphere are raising the risk of glacier lake outburst floods. A recently released report notes ...

The February 2021 glacier breach induced ... expanse of South Lhonak Lake, pose threats that are transboundary, spanning across regions in Bhutan, India, Nepal and Pakistan. These events ...

In August, 2024, several homes in Thame village in Nepal’s Namche region were swept away in a flood caused by a glacial lake bursting ... warming is accelerating glacier melt, decreasing snow ...