Study assesses risks from hanging glaciers in Central Himalaya

Unstable hanging glaciers connected steep upland slopes could trigger devastating avalanches and downstream disasters, a caller survey focused connected a delicate conception of the Central Himalaya has warned.

Four researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Chandigarh, assessed specified glaciers successful the Alaknanda basin of Uttarakhand, a cardinal headstream portion of the Ganga. Their findings revealed the standard of the increasing but mostly overlooked danger, and a crisp emergence successful quality exposure, driven by accelerated improvement successful high-altitude areas.