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KDKH transboundary working group
Across the globe, so many people have seen visuals of or heard about the flooding event which occurred in Uttarakhand, India yesterday, which has resulted in loss of lives, property, and great suffering. The visuals are frightening and heartbreaking. This is once again a grave reminder about how our shared mountain region is fragile and […]
Why monitor glacial lakes? Of the 3,624 glacial lakes in the Koshi, Karnali, and Gandaki basins, our 2020 inventory identified 47 as potentially dangerous or at of risk of outburst flooding. In the Koshi basin alone, there are 42 potentially dangerous glacial lakes – 22 in China and 18 in Nepal. The 26 recorded glacial […]
A new glacial lake inventory report has identified 47 potentially dangerous glacial lakes (PDGLs) within the Koshi, Gandaki, and Karnali river basins of Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and India. For the past two years, we have been working with UNDP Nepal to identify PDGLs in these three basins using high-resolution satellite imagery. […]
