This has increased the number of glacial lakes in the Nepal Himalaya as well as their sizes. For example, remote sensing data in the report showed that there were 3,609 glacial lakes in Nepal’s three ...

A survey conducted by the ICIMOD, an international non-government organisation, in 2001, had shown that there were 2323 glacial lakes in Nepal and 21 among these were at a high risk.

The 2.5km-long lake is 73m deep and holds 36 million cubic m of water, according to Dr Regmi’s 2017 report – enough to fill more than 14,400 Olympic swimming pools.

The deadly flood in Nepal's Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in the Tibet ...

A devastating flood that hit a village in Nepal’s Everest region was caused by a glacial lake outburst, local government officials and experts said Saturday. Climate change experts said it was a ...

On the banks of Nagdaha, a polluted and lotus-infested lake in Nepal, Soni Pradhanang is putting trash back into the water—on purpose. She carefully assembles a platform of styrofoam and bamboo ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a grant of USD 36.1 million to support Nepal in mitigating the rising threat of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs)—one of the most severe and fast ...

Some major floods unleashed in Nepal when mountain lakes fed by melting glaciers burst their banks: September 1977: An outburst from Nare Lake, below Mount Ama Dablam, kills three people and wipes ...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -The deadly flood in Nepal's Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of ...

It also washes away large sections of the Everest trekking trail. July 1991: Floodwaters from Chubung Lake in Rawaling, central Nepal, kill one person and damage homes and farmland.