Extreme floods caused by melting glaciers likely to cause more deaths – research

Research at the University of Dundee has suggested that glacial lakes bursting their dams will lead to increasing numbers of deaths (Owen Humphreys/PA Wire) - (PA Archive)

Extreme floods caused by meltwater from glaciers are likely to cause more fatalities globally due to climate change, according to research at a Scottish university.

Meltwater from glaciers settles into natural hollows in the landscape that are vacated by glaciers as they recede, and the water becomes dammed by deposits of mud, sand and gravel deposited by the glaciers.