Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. Water from the melting ice often drains ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several ...

Sudden floods in the Himalayas are leading to severe psychological impacts. A PhD student hopes her research will help.

Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan region holds the world’s largest ice ... This threatens many of the 240 million people living in the mountains and 1.65 billion downstream. Glacial lake outburst floods begin ...

Himalayan rivers were in place before the mountains were, and consequently, the river courses have remained unchanged while they have cut ever deeper gorges and valleys. These valleys have ...

Some mountains have permanent coverings of ice and snow – the Himalayas have more ice than anywhere outside the polar regions (they’re sometimes called the ‘third pole’). In many places, people depend ...

This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes lava to erupt out of the gap that is left. As it cools down ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several ...