Recent weather patterns of small amounts of snow, rain, freezing rain, ice and “wintery mix” have made going outside less enjoyable and downright treacherous. Rather than cursing the conditions, it is ...

IIT Guwahati researchers identify 493 high-risk sites for future glacial lakes in the Eastern Himalayas to enhance disaster ...

IIT Guwahati develops model predicting new glacial lakes in Eastern Himalayas, aiding flood risk management and water resource planning.

Among these, the research team found the Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) to be the most accurate and showed that certain earth features, such as neighbouring lakes, cirques, gentle slopes, and ...

Glaciers—dynamic masses of ice descending from the mountain tops—have always been fascinating to humankind. They intrinsically belong to the high-alpine environment. Countless photographs immortalize ...

Heavy snowfall in Uttarakhand’s high Himalayan regions this January has raised hopes of seasonal glacier formation. Experts ...

Satellite images from the NASA Earth Observatory have shown that a new island is forming in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park. The Alsek Glacier, which once encircled a small mountain known as Prow ...

Global melting is prying the lid off methane stocks, the extent of which we do not know. A researcher has now discovered high concentrations of the powerful greenhouse gas in meltwater from three ...

Do you know which is the largest glacier in India? Discover fascinating facts about Siachen Glacier's size, importance, and the rare wildlife that survives in its extreme cold.