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Several surging glaciers flow into the Shimshal River in a steep gorge in northern Pakistan — a recipe for a steady stream of floods in villages downstream.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland, with information and fact checking by Lasafam Iturrizaga (University of Göttingen) and Jakob Steiner (Utrecht University).
Published August 9, 2017 Data acquired May 13, 2017