Melting ice from the Himalayas is creating thousands of unstable lakes, a growing menace to towns and cities below.

Our new paper in the journal Science analyses the terrible landslide-triggered (GLOF) that struck India late in 2023.

As glaciers retreat worldwide, large numbers of new mountain lakes are forming. Directed studies are needed to understand how ecosystems can be expected to respond to future changes in glacier runoff ...

Project background This project will analyse field-based (Nepal) and earth observation data to explore key glacial lake characteristics that can be used to inform glacier evolution and disaster risk r...