The August 26, 2026 Nepal-Tibet disaster was a glacier and ice-rock collapse, not a classic GLOF - it killed over 1,100 people and damaged 431 MW of Nepal's hy…
About 27 million cubic metres of rock and glacier ice detached from the steep north face of Ronti Peak and transformed into a highly mobile debris flow down the Ronti Ga…
Peer-reviewed research found that an unstable lateral moraine mass - up to 14.7 million cubic metres of frozen material - collapsed into South Lhonak Lake, generating a…
ICIMOD determined that a rock avalanche hit a glacial lake at about 4,900 m, producing a displacement wave that breached the lake and released roughly 156,000 cubic metr…
A flood wave surged down the Lhende River in Tibet, crossed the border at Rasuwagadhi and entered Nepal's Upper Trishuli. ICIMOD satellite analysis attributed it to the…
ICIMOD's HKH Glacier Outlook 2026, synthesising 38 monitored glaciers, found that ice-loss rates have roughly doubled since 2000, with a marked acceleration after 2010,…
A joint IIT Ropar / University of Technology Sydney study published August 28, 2026 screened Himachal Pradesh's glacial lakes and flagged 88 as at-risk: 9 extremely haza…
Satellite imagery indicates a large section of glacier and rock detached at roughly 5,200-5,400 m near Nepal's Langtang region and fell about 1,200 m - an estimated 100-…
When the debris blockage failed, the ponded water released in a surge that picked up sediment and became a debris-laden flood down the Bhote Koshi and, further downstrea…
Nepal's electricity authority reported the flood knocked about 431 MW of operating hydropower capacity offline (~10% of the national total, including plants at Rasuwagad…
ICIMOD's HI-WISE assessment projects the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra basins reaching "peak water" - the point of maximum glacier meltwater contribution to river flow -…
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