LANGTANG, Nepal - High in the Himalayas, two villages near Nepal's border with Tibet are getting power from an unusual source: a threatening glacial lake. In this high-altitude region, climate change ...

Glacial lake outburst floods, or GLOF, are a sudden release of water from a lake fed by glacier melt that has formed at the side, in front, within, beneath, or on the surface of a glacier.

In 1981, another glacial lake burst in China caused a flood on the same river in Nepal, damaging the Sun Kosi power plant and washing out a 25km section of the Arniko Highway, cutting Nepal’s only ...

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 ...

A view of the project from across the Langtang Valley showing the receding Langtang Lirung Glacier, and the location of the intake, penstock and powerhouse. There is a drop of 300m, and the turbines ...

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.

Nepal explores tapping flood-risk glacial lakes for clean power Since 2017, 175 households in Langtang and Kyanjin, two villages in the high Kyanjin Valley, have been able to tap hydro-power from ...