I n a little over two weeks, more than 3,000 billion liters of water recently flooded out of an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland. It’s the first time scientists have closely documented such an ...

Does flooding from melting glaciers pose a growing danger in the high mountains? Not necessarily, as a study led by the ...

For many years, scientists have been discussing whether the population in mountain regions is increasingly at risk from ...

Life cycle of the Shisper Glacier lake The glacier began surging in early 2018, blocking a river and forming an ice-dammed lake. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth and the International ...

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Manzanita Lake was formed when Orr irrigation ditch (south of the lake) was dammed on Nov. 25, 1911. Today, swans, ducks, and even some turtles like to call it home. Manzanita Bowl, to the south of ...

Lake Matoaka was an open watercourse of streams and wetlands known as Archer's Hope Swamp. Some time between 1700 and 1750 this original section of college property was sold to a private landowner who ...

The Mirror Lake is, in fact, a dammed lake caused by an ancient volcanic eruption during which the Mudan River was blocked by lava. Covering 1,200 square kilometers, the quiet and clear lake is ...

Tulloch Reservoir closed to all recreational boating effective Tuesday this week, to try to protect the dammed body of water ...

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 ...