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Floods, landslides, and forest fires are becoming frequent in the Himalayas as reckless road, rail and dam constructions, tree felling, blasting and tunnelling in the fragile hills make continuous landslides or loose rock-falls a regular affair. A study has found that 51 per cent of Uttarakhand is “high” and “very high” landslide-prone.

(Bloomberg) — It had been snowing hard for days in the Indian Himalayas before a thaw set in. Then, at 10:21 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2021, part of Ronti peak cracked…

Mar 14, 2022 (Bloomberg) It had been snowing hard for days in the Indian Himalayas before a thaw set in. Then, at 10:21 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2021, part of Ronti peak cracked and fell off the mountain.The resulting landslide had enough rock and ice to fill 12,000 Olympic swimming pools and was…

Scientists detail February’s catastrophic rock and ice slide in the Indian Himalaya that claimed 200 lives.

Team used computer model to recreate deluge for report in 'Science'; confirms avalanche, not glacial lake outburst, caused disaster

Read more about Uttarakhand disaster was caused by massive rock and ice avalanche: Study on Business Standard. February 7 disaster in Chamoli district, that resulted in over 200 dead or missing, was result of an avalanche that dropped about 27 mn cubic metres of rock and glacier ice from nearby Ronti Peak

On 7 February 2020, the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand was devastated after a wall of rock and ice collapsed and formed a debris flow that barreled down the Ronti Gad...

Team used computer model to recreate deluge for report in 'Science'; confirms avalanche, not glacial lake outburst, caused disaster

A coalition of 53 scientists has found the cause, scope and effects of the natural disaster that rocked northern India earlier this year.

A Northumbria University geomorphologist is among a team of international scientists to investigate the cause of the Uttarakhand flood in India earlier this...