#GLOF

Shivangi Tiwari

shivangi__t

Since there is some spectacularly bad reporting happening - and the confusion is spreading fast - some clarifications:(THREAD)1. A glacier is like a river of ice. It looks like this:(Source:

Nivedita Khandekar

nivedita_Him

As we close the week, stories of rescue and other troubles continue to pour out of #Chamoli district which was struct by a #Disaster #Glaciers and #GlacierLakeOutburstFlood #GLOF were suddenly

Dr Dan Shugar

WaterSHEDLab

There has been a lot of confusion in the past 24hrs surrounding the term 'glacier burst' and exactly what happened to cause the #UttarakhandDisaster flood. Analysis by myself and colleagues

Amitangshu Acharya

amitangshu

Pinning the blame on #GlacierBurst masks real issues.The Himalayas are being made fragile & brittle with rampant construction of #dams, #roads & tourism projects which rarely benefit locals whose lives

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