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  A deluge that resulted from a glacial melt on Nanda Devi flooded the Rishiganga river in Uttarakhand and   washed away   at least two hydroelectric power projects — the13.2 MW Rishiganga hydroelectric power project and the Tapovan project on the Dhauliganga river, a tributary of the Alakananda. There were also concerns that the excess water would further travel downstream to the river Alaknanda and threaten villages as well as  v However the India Meteorological Department has said that no rains are forecast. Officials of the Central Water Commission meanwhile said the flooding from the glacial burst has been contained. Environmental experts have attributed the glacial melt to global warming. Glacier retreat and permafrost thaw are projected to decrease the stability of mountain slopes and increase the number and area of glacier lakes, according to the latest assessment reports of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. There is also high confidence that ...

 Todays scenarios Global Warming is defined as the increase of the average temperature on  Earth. As the Earth is getting hotter, disasters like hurricanes, droughts and  floods are getting more frequent.  Over the last 100 years, the average temperature of the air near the Earth´s  surface has risen a little less than 1° Celsius (0.74 ± 0.18°C, or 1.3 ± 0.32°  Fahrenheit).  It is responsible for the conspicuous increase in storms, floods and raging  forest fires we have seen in the last ten years, though, say scientists.  Earth should be in cool-down-period But it is not only about how much the Earth is warming, it is also about how  fast it is warming. There have always been natural climate changes – Ice Ages and the  warm intermediate times between them – but those evolved over periods of 50,000 to  100,000 years.  A temperature rise as fast as the one we have seen over the last 30 years has  never happened before,...