As The Independent reported, University of Dundee researchers conducted a study on the risks posed by melting glacial lakes.

A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts ...

Glacier National Park is a place where towering peaks, shimmering lakes, and sweeping valleys come together to form one of ...

A new study analyzing a lake formed by a glacier surge in the Karakoram Mountains has revealed how satellite images can be used to monitor the potential for lake drainage hazards. New research has ...

In 1995 large meltwater lake formed and developed on the surface of the 79°N Glacier. Researchers observed that over the years, this lake has caused gigantic cracks and the outflowing water is lifting ...

For the first time, Juneau’s famous Mendenhall Glacier is not touching Mendenhall Lake, which was hidden beneath a thick sheet of glacial ice only a couple of hundred years ago. Scientists say this ...

The Grinnell Lake Trail in Glacier National Park is an excellent hike the Many Glacier area, and, thanks to its relative lack of elevation gain, is one of the best beginner-friendly hikes in the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado Boulder and Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan ...

INSTAAR senior research associate Alton Byers has organized frequent research expeditions to the Himalayas for more than 50 years. Last summer, he returned to the remote Kanchenjunga region in Nepal, ...

Repeated, rapid drainages from a meltwater lake on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier are exposing how warming-driven fractures and ...

Scientists first detected the lake in observational records from 1995. Before then, no lakes had existed in this part of the 79°N Glacier. "There were ...