Explore our public engagement activities, press coverage, and community initiatives across the Himalayan hazards research programme.
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1 July 2026
The UNDDR Prevention Web has featured our GLOF work, including the most recent assessment of GLOF threat in Bhutan (Rinzin et al., 2026) and our previous global assessment of GLOF danger. The IDDR Prevention web is the global knowledge sharing platform for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience and is managed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
3 June 2026
Rachel Carr gave a telephone interview about the recent Blatten disaster. The discussion focused on lessons learnt and how this relatively successful response could be apply to other areas at risk from these events.
26 March 2024
We visited Royal Thimphu collage to discuss links with Newcastle University and gave a talk to students on GLOFs and the impacts of cliamte change on glaciers.
28 January 2025
Rachel Carr gave a talk about her research on GLOFs to the Geographical Association, at King's Priory School, Tynemouth. The GA aims to provide talks to students from researchers on all aspects of Geography.
7 March 2025
Rachel Carr gave a series of talks to classes at Framwellgate School, Durham, about her work in glaciology, including what it is like to live and work in the high mountains and extreme environments.
23 November 2024
Interview with the Kuensel to describe joint work between DHI and Newcastle University of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods.
7 February 2023
Rachel Carr was interviewed about the paper Taylor et al., 2023, which mapped global GLOF exposure. This was published on the BBC news website, as art of their science and environment coverage.
10 February 2021
Rachel Carr gave TV and long-form interviews to Al Jazeera on the the Uttarakhand flood in India.
13 January 2025
Rachel Carr did an interview with the Financial Times on glacier melt and the associated increase in risk to downstream populations, including Glacial Lake Outburst Floods.
12 November 2025
Rachel Carr gave an invited talk on the use of remote sensing and AI to quantify evolving GLOF hazard and risk in Bhutan. This included pond monitoring and input to flood models, as well as novel approaches to assessing population response to GLOFs. She also took part in the panel discussion on the future of AI and remote sensing.
21 March 2025
An interview for a piece about glaciers and cliamte change in the environmental website Mongabay.
1 July 2026
Rachel and Sonam are presenting their work on Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Bhutan to the The Bhutan Society of the UK, as part of their ongoing talk series.
27 March 2025
Rachel Carr gave an interview to the German magazine Das Spiegel, for World Glacier Day. She talked about impacts on communities, trends in hazard and risk associated with glacier melting, and field reserach experiences.
3 June 2025
Rachel Carr gave an interview to Bloomberg on the Blatten glacier collapse and its broader implications for how we manage GLOF risk.
23 November 2025
We gave a talk in the Spirit of Discovery session at Kendal Mountain Film Festival 2025 on our work in Bhutan, entitled "Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in Lunana, Bhutan". The talk was delivered to ~300 of the general public interested in the outdoors and mountaineering. We updated everyone on progress since our 2024 talking, including our interviews and hazard mapping results.
17 November 2024
We gave a talk in the Spirit of Discovery session at Kendal Mountain Film Festival 2024 on our work in Bhutan, entitled "Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in Lunana, Bhutan". The talk was delivered to ~300 of the general public interested in the outdoors and mountaineering. We provided initial insights into our findings and introduce our data collection techniques.
22 April 2023
A podcast about the significance of Earth Day, the impact of climate change on glaciated landscapes and the steps that we can all take to help meet net-zero targets.
21 April 2026
Rachel and Sonam sat down with the Joe Brown's team at Kendal Mountain Film festival to talk about their research in Lunana and their experience of working in this high-altitude, very remote area. This included chatting about equipment, clothing and what an amazing place Lunana is to visit.
26 March 2026
Rachel Carr and Sonam Rinzin presented our Glacial Lake Oubturst Flood (GLOF) research at the Mount Everest Foundation lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, London, on 26th March 2026. The lecture was entitled 'summits, science, and survival' and was presented to special guests from learned societies, related to the mountains and cliamte cahnge, and to the general public. The talk asked what the future holds for mountaineers and mountain communities, drawing on the experiences of young alpinists and pioneering mountain scientists. It combined research into the threat of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods to some of the world’s remotest communities in the Bhutanese Himalaya with new generation approaches to high altitude climbing , from young climbers exploring big routes in Pakistan.