This after a glacial lake overflowed its banks following days of torrential rain.

这是在经历了数天的暴雨后，其中一个冰川湖中的湖水溢出河岸导致的。

WIRE (voice-over): Minnesota, the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, countless glacial lakes and streams dot the landscape here.

Wire(画外音)：明尼苏达州，万湖之乡，无数的冰川湖泊和河流点缀着这里的风景。

The flooding was triggered by the overflow of a glacial lake in a mountainous area close to the Chinese border.

此次洪水是由靠近中国边境山区的一个冰川湖决堤出引发的。

The approach includes a cruise across the glacial lake.

该方法包括穿越冰川湖的游船。

And what if those floods cascade into other glacial lakes, creating even bigger outbursts?

如果这些洪水流入其他冰川湖，造成更大的爆发怎么办？

There will be more extremes: more intense rain, more flash floods, more landslides, more glacial lake outburst floods.

将会有更多的极端情况：更多的强降雨、更多的山洪暴发、更多的山体滑坡、更多的冰湖溃决洪水。

Hundreds of rescuers dug through slushy debris and icy waters Friday in a search for survivors after a glacial lake overflowed and burst through a dam in India's Himalayan north.

星期五，数百名救援人员在泥泞的废墟和冰冷的水中搜寻幸存者。此前，印度北部一座喜马拉雅冰川湖决堤。

And what if, as a result, the glacial lakes -- now these are lakes that form when glaciers melt -- what if those lakes burst under the weight of additional water?

如果结果是冰川湖——现在这些是冰川融化时形成的湖泊——如果这些湖泊在额外水的重压下爆裂怎么办？

A glacial lake twice the size of Rhode Island emptied in just a couple days, and the torrent of water escaping the broken ice dam was equivalent to more than 10 times the flow from all the rivers on the planet.

一个两倍于罗德岛大小的冰川湖在短短几天内就被清空了，逃离破冰大坝的水流相当于地球上所有河流流量的 10 倍以上。