How can climate change impact flood risks for the Himalayan floodplain, which is a globally known flood region? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as a team ...

On August 5, a cloudburst near the Kheer Ganga river triggered a flash flood that tore through Dharali, a village in the Indian Himalayas. Within minutes, the river swelled with water, mud and debris, ...

At any moment, a wall of water could blast down a mountain river, shattering bridges, ripping away houses, and sweeping away people. This is the traumatic reality facing thousands of people around the ...

At least 56 people are feared dead in a flash flood triggered by sudden heavy rain that devastated a remote village in the restive Himalayan region of India-administered Kashmir. Rescuers are racing ...

Experts said the deadly flood that swept away an Indian Himalayan town was likely caused by a rapidly melting glacier fuelled by the effects of climate change ...

LUCKNOW, India — Rescuers were scouring a devastated Himalayan village in northern India to find dozens of missing people, a day after flash floods killed at least four people and left many others ...