Lakes dammed by ice will commonly spill in catastrophic outbursts. Lake Agassiz-Ojibway, at the margin of the Laurentide ice sheet, burst 8,470 years ago in a subglacial flood whose marks have been ...

Glacial lakes are common in the Himalayas, as this satellite view shows. Some are dammed by glaciers, other by moraines. Photo: NASA In August 2023, residents of Juneau, Alaska, watched as the ...

Across the surface of debris-covered glaciers in the Nepal Himalayas there are many lakes on the order of 1 km in scale. Some of the lakes, dammed by the end/lateral moraine, have been expanded from ...

Every two years, a pair of glacial lakes fill up, pressure builds, and water releases beneath the glaciers into rivers and lakes in the Kenai Peninsula. Snow Glacier Dammed Lake, which sits roughly 25 ...

The rapid release of water from a glacier-dammed lake has prompted a flood advisory for Kenai Lake and the Kenai River near Cooper Landing, according to the National Weather Service. Water levels are ...

Many global media outlets reported that the US government will introduce what is being referred to as the "unprecedented rules limiting American investments in China" on Wednesday. This plan has been ...