Jammu, April 1 -- A looming environmental threat is quietly building up in the Kashmir Himalaya, with five glacial lakes flagged as "very high risk" for catastrophic glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), potentially putting thousands of lives and critical infrastructure in danger.
The Jammu and Kashmir government, in a disclosure on the floor of the Legislative Assembly in response to a query by National Conference MLA Tanvir Sadiq, revealed that Bramsar, Chirsar, Nundkol, Gangabal, and Bhagsar lakes have been categorised under the highest susceptibility bracket.
The warning is based on a recent scientific study by the Department of Geoinformatics, University of Kashmir, published in the Journal of Glaciology, which analysed 155 glacial l...