The findings, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, will help scientists and governments identify potential hazards to communities downstream of these often unstable lakes, he said. "In the past 100 years, 35% of global sea-level rises came from glacier melting," Anders Levermann, climate professor at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact, told AFP. Glacial lake outburstsEarth's average surface temperature has risen 1℃ since preindustrial times, but high-mountain regions around the world have warmed at twice that pace, accelerating glacier melt. Unlike normal lakes, glacier lakes are unstable because they are often dammed by ice or sediment composed of loose rock and debris. The most recent recorded incident was a glacial lake outburst that washed through the Hunza Valley in Pakistan in May.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 01, 2020 04:18 UTC