While earthquakes have often been blamed for rock failures and landslides on mountain slopes, scientists also point at global temperature rises for rapid thawing of snowfields and glacial melt that can disturb the flow of snow-fed rivers.

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Something is happening to my eyesight in the constant oncoming flow and swirl of snow.

NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)

The water, albeit in smaller volumes, continues to flow, forming unstable layers of snow, slush and ice (see 2:08 when Gadd sinks his hooks into a piece of snow that simply crumbles away).

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The flow in the Mekong comes mainly from rainfall and some snow melt, not melting ice.

ECONOMIST: Letters

In particular, the participants set out to identify researchers and other qualified personnel from different Andean countries, who could form the nucleus of a Working Group on Snow and Ice within the framework of an Andean-FRIEND (Andean - Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data).

UNESCO: Valdivia, Chile, 2003