As global temperatures rise, glaciers are melting, creating dangerous glacial lakes. These lakes pose risks to downstream communities and infrastructure.

The wind slices across the Western Huayna Potosí Glacier in slow, sweeping currents, brushing over brittle ice and bare stone ...

At 5 100 meters above sea level, the air around Bolivia's Huayna Potosí glacier is thin, brittle with altitude. The wind ...

A glacial lake outburst flood in the Himalayas in October 2023 damaged more than 30 bridges and destroyed a 200-foot-high (60-meter) hydropower plant. Residents had little warning. By the time the ...

Indian banks are currently extending more loans than they are gathering deposits, with the incremental loan-to-deposit ratio reaching nearly 126%. This indicates a reliance on borrowed funds, as ...

Graphite is used to make batteries for electric vehicles. Ukraine also has significant deposits of titanium and lithium. It says it has substantial amounts of the world's rare earth metals - a ...

Heavy snowfall in the region for the past 48 hours led parts of a glacier to collapse onto a river, causing the avalanche. The workers were employed by a private contractor for road construction.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lloyds Banking Group wrongly classified £44.1bn of customer deposits in figures submitted to the Bank of ...

Minerals swept up on land by this “glacial broom” altered marine chemistry and infused oceans with nutrients that they say may have shaped how complex life evolved. This ancient period of deep ...

as the Himalayas have the third largest deposit of ice and snow on Earth after the Arctic and Antarctica, fetching it the name 'Third Pole'. "India needs to take a lead in glacier preservation as ...