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BY: JULIA JACOBO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Warming temperatures across the globe are changing landscapes and threatening local cities and communities. A devastating break of a glacier in the Himalayas on Feb. 7 left dozens dead and more than 100 missing after it smashed into multiple dams, collecting debris and energy as it made [...]
Himalayan disaster explained The Rishi Ganga River rises in the shadow of Nanda Devi (7,816m), India's second highest mountain. Credit: Sumod K Mohan / Wikicommons A devastating flood last week on the upper reaches of the Rishi Ganga River, in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand, is a stark warning of the hazards of hydropower development under the dual threats of climate change and young, unstable mountains, scientists said last Friday in a webinar hosted by the The Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, US. The flood came thundering down the Alaknanda River, a Ganges River ...
Glacial event that killed dozens could happen more often due to climate change On Location: Feb. 17, 2021 Replay Video Warming temperatures across the globe are changing landscapes and threatening local cities and communities. A devastating break of a glacier in the Himalayas on Feb. 7 left dozens dead and more than 100 missing after it smashed into multiple dams, collecting debris and energy as it made its way down the flank before slamming into two hydroelectric plants in northern India. While it's difficult to attribute the cause of the collapse on climate change alone, rising tempera...
Updated Feb 08, 2021 | 14:10 IST The monster of climate change has a firm grip on the ecological balance of the world. Disasters such as Chamoli and Kedarnath flashfloods are likely to get more frequent as glaciers lose more mass. Ngozumba glacier, the largest glacier in great Himalayan range | Photo Credit: iStock Images Key Highlights In the next less than 15 years, the mountains of Himalayas bid adieu to the last of glaciers unless there is a drastic correction in use of fossil fuels and other factors affecting global warming. A study revealed that this...
December 12, 2020 It’s AGU Fall Meeting week, and the Science stories typically hit peak volume during this time. This story is spectacular. Paul Voosen in Science: BURLINGTON, VERMONT—In one of the Cold War’s oddest experiments, the United States dug a 300-meter-long military base called Camp Century into the ice of northwest Greenland in the early 1960s, powered it with a nuclear reactor, and set out to test the feasibility of shuttling nuclear missiles beneath the ice. A constant struggle against intruding snow doomed the base, which was abandoned in 1966. But Camp Century has left a...