Expedition to Imja Lake
A short video about a scientific expedition to the rapidly growing and potentially dangerous Imja lake, lead by Alton Byers of the Mountain Institute and involving specialists from 13 different countries.
GLOF risk mitigation at Imja Lake
Located at an altitude of 5,010 metres in Solukhumbu district, Imja covers an area of 1.28 sq. km, at a depth of 148.9 meters, and holds 75.2 million cubic meters of water—the overflow of which poses a serious threat to people living downstream.
Glacial Lake Missoula Flood
This movie shows a physics-based computer simulation of the Great Flood from Glacial Lake Missoula about 15,000 years ago.
Gigantic outburst floods from Catalina lake detected in satellite imagery
Catalina Lake on Renland is the source of very large glacier lake outburst floods every one to two decades. The flood volumes are among the largest in recorded history, yet Renland is so remote that it has previously not been documented.
Bhutan Glacial Lake Outburst Flood 1994
In October 1994, a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) occurred in the Himalayan country of Bhutan, causing significant damages and loss of life.
What is Glacial Lake Outburst Flood? How and why a glacier breaks?
Glacier fragmentation, landslides, or other processes can trigger waves that destabilize the dam and cause a GLOF.
What is Glacial Lake Outburst Flood? How and why a glacier breaks?
A Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) is a catastrophic flood caused by the sudden release of water from a glacial lake.
Glacial moulin formation triggered by rapid lake drainage
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and collaborators are uncovering the mystery of how, where and when a glacial feature called a moulin can form on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
The Brumadinho dam disaster
The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure.
Flash floods in Nahal Og, which empties into the Dead Sea
The hikers were in Nahal Og, which like other stream beds near the Dead Sea often sees flash flooding during heavy rains.
Pine Island Massive Glacier Burst
An enormous iceberg about five times the size of Manhattan broke off Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, a mere month after a crack first appeared, satellite imagery shows.
Glacial Lake Research: The Suicide Basin Outburst Flood
Suicide Basin is a side basin of the Mendenhall Glacier above Juneau, Alaska. Since 2011, Suicide Basin has released glacier lake outburst floods that cause inundation along Mendenhall Lake and Mendenhall River.