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 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 ...

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 ...

Imja Tsho, located at an altitude of 5,010 metres (16,437 feet), just 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) south of the world’s highest peak, is the fastest-growing glacial lake in Nepal.

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.

Hundreds of glacial lakes formed from glacial melt have appeared out of nowhere in the Himalayas in recent decades and 2,070 were documented in Nepal in a 2020 study by the ICIMOD.

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 ...

KANCHANPUR: Kanchanpur district in the far-western Tarai has 47 natural lakes, according to a report of the District Agricultural Development Office. The biggest among these lakes are the Puraina ...

The lake would be the world's highest lake if its altitude of 5000-plus metres is officially verified. Currently, Nepal's Tilicho Lake situated at an altitude of 4,919 holds the title.

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 ...