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Increase in glacial lake volume drives flood risk – PreventionWeb
Increase in glacial lake volume poses greatest dangers to downstream communities.
By Erin Guiltenane
Glaciers are retreating on a near-global scale. It takes only a short drive from Calgary up to the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefields to see an example of the changing landscape apparent within our lifetime.
A new study led by Dr. Dan Shugar, PhD, with collaborators from governments and universities in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, uses satellite data from NASA and Google Earth Engine to analyze all of the world’s glacial lakes. Published in Natu…
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