The first phase of an international project to reduce the risk to a Bhutan valley from the threatening bursting of a growing and increasingly unstable glacial lake is emphasising the huge costs of ...

Bhutan is home to nearly 570 glacial lakes. Of them, 17 are at risk of glacial lake outburst flood due to rising temperatures. To mitigate the risk, early ...

First in the world to develop scientific approaches to glacial lake outburst There have been concerns in Bhutan and Nepal in recent years about the danger of glacial lake outburst floods resulting ...