A search and rescue team in Kelowna, B.C., says a missing person was found dead on Saturday, about 155 feet (47 metres) deep ...

Life cycle of the Shisper Glacier lake The glacier began surging in early 2018, blocking a river and forming an ice-dammed lake. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth and the International ...

By analyzing satellite images of almost 1700 documented glacial lake floods in 13 glacier regions around the world over a period from 1990 to 2023 they found that the areas of ice dammed lakes ...

Manzanita Lake was formed when Orr irrigation ditch (south of the lake) was dammed on Nov. 25, 1911. Today, swans, ducks, and even some turtles like to call it home. Manzanita Bowl, to the south of ...

The great continental ice sheets were melting very fast in the time of Glacial Lake Missoula, shedding great torrents of meltwater every summer, raising sea level an average of approximately 100 ...

Lake Baikal measures 12,239 square miles (31,700 square kilometers), making it Earth's seventh-largest lake.It is not only the world's oldest lake but also the deepest one, at about 1 mile (1.6 ...

Lake Matoaka was an open watercourse of streams and wetlands known as Archer's Hope Swamp. Some time between 1700 and 1750 this original section of college property was sold to a private landowner who ...

Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several flash floods in recent years from a glacial lake dammed by ice on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier. Those floods, including in 2024, were driven by a melting ...

The glacier, a southern tongue of the great Cordilleran ice sheet that covered western Canada in the last ice age, dammed up the Clark Fork River, creating Glacial Lake Missoula. When the ice dam ...