Glacial melt plays its most vital role before and after the rainy season, when it supplies a greater portion of the flow in every river from the Yangtze (which irrigates more than half of China's ...

The great continental ice sheets were melting very fast in the time of Glacial Lake Missoula, shedding great torrents of meltwater every summer, raising sea level an average of approximately 100 ...

Our climate today is actually a warm interval between these many periods of glaciation. The most recent period of glaciation, which many people think of as the "Ice Age", was at its height ...

There is considerable geological evidence for an extensive glaciation some 600 million years ago. Its end caused an alteration of climate that made possible the proliferation of animal life in ...

"If we don't have it, we don't need it," pronounces Daniel Fagre as we throw on our backpacks. We're armed with crampons, ice axes, rope, GPS receivers, and bear spray to ward off grizzlies, and ...

A deadly flash flood in the north-east state of Sikkim shows why India urgently needs to install advanced early warning systems for its dangerous glacial lakes, experts say. At least 70 people ...

A glacial lake at the foot of Jomolhari mountain in Bhutan. Up to 15 million people face risk of catastrophic flooding from glacial lakes which could burst their natural dams at any moment ...

An alternative hypothesis to explain the D-O cycles of the last glacial period has to do with large-scale changes in wind patterns over the North Atlantic (Romanova et al. 2006, Wunsch 2006).

Around 10,000 years ago as the ice age advance began to melt, glacial deposits or drift were left behind. These glacial deposits were of two kinds: Till - mixed or unstratified materials directly ...

2023 saw record setting highs with regards to planetary temperatures. Now, *** new un weather agency report indicates that 2023 also had record lows in terms of planetary river flows. The report ...

Glacial lakes are hydrological buffers — they check the natural flow of water from melting ice. This can cause occasional hardships to communities that live downstream of the lakes.

Exploring how glaciation has shaped the coastline of north Norfolk and the land bridge that once connected the UK with mainland Europe. LIZ BONNIN: Hi, I’m Liz Bonnin. Now Britain is ...