47 potentially dangerous glacial lakes tickling in Koshi, Gandaki, and Karnali river basins

Of total 3,624 glacial lakes identified by the inventory, 1,410 lakes are equal to or larger than 0.02 sq km which are considered large enough to cause serious damage downstream once they burst.

A new study has identified as many as 47 glacial lakes within the Koshi, Gandaki, and Karnali river basins of Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China, and India as potentially dangerous, the ones that could damage physical infrastructure and cause loss of human lives and livelihoods downstream.