Glacial lakes in the Himalayas are expanding at an alarming rate, increasing the risk of catastrophic floods for nearby ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

Saul Luciano Lliuya grows corn, potatoes and quinoa. In winter, he takes tourists up to the icy heights of the Peruvian Andes.   Now the farmer from the mountain village of Huaraz is in the global ...

These risks and the loss of freshwater supplies are some of the reasons the United Nations declared 2025 the International ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya, 45, lives in Huaraz, a city in Peru's central Ancash region, in the heart of the Peruvian Andes. It lies more than a mile below Palcacocha, a high altitude lake that is ...

Scientists now warn that glaciers in many parts of the world 'will not survive the 21st century', potentially triggering ...

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40 per cent of their glacier volume from 2000 to 2023. These and other icy ...

Lliuya first filed a lawsuit in 2015 but a court in the western German city of Essen ... "They (the farmers in Huaraz) got talking and they said: 'It's not right. We have done nothing to ...

The Inca Trail draws large crowds, which can compromise your hike's quality. If you crave quieter treks with even better ...

In the high Andes of northern Peru, the morning sun rises over glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca mountains that loom above the city of Huaraz, an awe-inspiring sight tainted by fears of a growing ...