Sentences with phrase «dangerous glacial lakes»
A new study mapping the effects of dwindling glaciers on people living in Bolivia reveals rapid shrinkage and potentially dangerous glacial lakes.
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Hoffmann adds: «A nation - wide risk assessment of potentially dangerous glacial lakes would be of great interest to local communities in glacier watersheds.»
Fujita's list of dangerous glacial lakes, however, is quite different from the one made by ICIMOD in 2001.
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The resulting glacial meltwater can form dangerous lakes contained only by unstable rock and debris.
They identified 25 glacial lakes across the Bolivian Andes as potentially dangerous to communities and infrastructure, as they could result in very damaging floods.