Community volunteers transform neglected Blue Lake Township Park into a new trail system thanks to thousands of service hours ...

Earlier this spring, the Forest Service sought public comment before issuing a 20-year permit for operating the historic ...

Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of dry, sunbaked lake bed as California officials filled a complex of ...

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Sikkim on 29 May, chief minister Prem Singh Tamang (Golay) placed ...

In the Himalayas, melting glaciers are forming unstable lakes that can burst like silent tsunamis—putting millions at risk of ...

With 219 of 220 polls reporting, incumbent Dan Albas, of the Conservative Party, is projected to be re-elected in Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna. As of 4:22 p.m., Albas has 32,532 of 63,684 ...

South Lhonak Lake’s rapid expansion over the past two decades made the disaster inevitable. First observed in the 1960s, its growth rate doubled since 2004, from 0.023 km² to 0.046 km² per year.

There is scientific evidence that the paleo lake was indeed emptied in stages starting 40,000 ... Melamchi in Nepal, and the South Lhonak in Sikkim — all deadly disasters that together destroyed ...

On the intervening night of October 3-4, 2023, the collapse of South Lhonak’s lateral moraine (a ridge formed along the side of the glacier as it retreated) into the glacial lake caused a 20 ...

The bridge was built to connect Mangan, the district headquarters, with Dzongu after a bridge was swept away in October 2023 during the glacial lake outburst flood on the South Lhonak Lake. The Border ...

Sikkim has been allocated Rs 40 crore. A new study reveals how climate change-induced impacts led to devastating 2023 South Lhonak glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in North Sikkim which led to ...