On the night of October 3-4, 2023, thousands of people living along the Teesta River in Sikkim and West Bengal, India, had to ...

(A moraine is a ridge of debris formed by a glacier.) About 11,700 years ago the lake breached the moraine near present-day Browns Valley at a place now called Traverse Gap. The flow of water and ...

Today marks a historic confluence as we celebrate the first-ever World Glacier Day followed tomorrow by World Water Day. As ...

Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines deposited by the glacier over centuries. Too much water behind these dams or a landslide into the lake can ...

A graphic showing how sediments from under the glacier pile up into buttressing moraines and how the UT Austin-led expedition plans to explore the glacial environment.