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.

A new inventory of glacial lakes in Nepal, TAR China, and India, has not only found 3,624 glacial lakes located in the three basins but also identified 47 glacial lakes that could potentially cause glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs).

The study by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the United National Development Programme (UNDP), released on Monday, has once again rung the alarm bell of the adverse impact of climate change to the high mountain region.

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