Wow!: Nepal explores tapping flood-risk glacial lakes for clean power
In an effort to turn a risk into a gain, Nepal aims to drain burgeoning glacial lakes and could produce hydropower from the flow. MUKESH POKHREL, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
As glacial lake bursts, preparation saves lives in Pakistan
Karachi, PakistanThomson Reuters Foundation Efforts to prepare Pakistani mountain communities threatened by the collapse of glacial lakes, as climate change brings faster glacier melt, paid off this week as a flood ravaged five villages in Chitral district but appeared to cost no lives, Pakistan and international officials said. The flood on Sunday in the Golain […]