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

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

Does flooding from melting glaciers pose a growing danger in the high mountains? Not necessarily, as a study led by the University of Potsdam shows. Although glaciers are melting worldwide and cause ...

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 ...

The Little Ice Age, which lasted around 500 years, had a profound impact on the environment and the people who lived around ...

Lake Ontario is now imperiled because of the way we've come to rely on it. In the 19th century, we cut down forests, dammed and polluted tributaries, dug canals and obliterated fish species in the ...

The details are still being worked out but the overarching question remains: will state lawmakers do enough to keep water ...

For many people, the "King" Columbia River begins and ends with the Grand Coulee Dam, the iconic 1930s project that produces ...