IslamabadPakistan’s unfrozen glacial lakes jumped from 40 to 105.
More unfrozen lakes raise the risk of floods threatening villages downstream in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral.
Meltwater pools behind unstable moraine dams, and lakes that exceed their historic size raise the odds a dam fails.
“Glacial melt is a serious concern,” said Karamat Ali, a glaciologist at Karakoram International University.
Suparco says satellite monitoring continues through the melt season to catch any lake’s rapid expansion.
How each outlet framed it
- Dawn
- tracks 40-to-105 glacial lake surge via satellite in 2 months; several surpassed historical maximums despite cloud-cover monitoring gaps
Sources: Dawn