The video, filmed by a Chinese tour guide in Tibet, shows huge chunks of ice breaking away from a ridge on Langtang Lirung peak, on the Nepali side of the border.
A huge piece of ice that fell thousands of metres from a glacier into a river below may have unleashed the disaster in Nepal ...
Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about to be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away. “Its final demise could happen suddenly, and to ...
Discover how a massive mountain landslide and glacial collapse triggered deadly flash floods in Nepal and Tibet, leaving ...
The mountain section whose collapse triggered fatal floods in Nepal and China on Aug. 26 had experienced unprecedented heat for the time of year, meteorological data analyzed by a researcher show.
An initial assessment of satellite images suggests an “ice avalanche” from a high-altitude glacier sent a giant cascade into the valley below.
Glaciers cover Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska, where two glacier collapses took place. A massive chunk of a Himalayan glacier and underlying rock broke off and led to catastrophic flooding ...
The collapse of a glacier in Tibet earlier this week — and subsequent flooding in Nepal — has raised questions about whether warming mountain regions elsewhere could face similar hazards, including in ...