For this Kashmiri geoscientist, Nepal tragedy offers a case to understand emerging GLOF risks in the Western Himalayas

India, Aug. 30 -- Kashmiri geoscientist Irfan Rashid is using satellite imagery of Nepal's recent catastrophic floods to decode how massive glacier-ice collapses trigger deadly downstream events. By ... Read More

'Energy created by Nepal flood was bigger than the atom bomb dropped in Hiroshima'

India, Aug. 30 -- A catastrophic August 26 flood in Nepal's Lhende Khola system unleashed energy greater than the Hiroshima atom bomb, according to geohazard expert Basanta Raj Adhikari. Triggered by... Read More

Climate change is transforming Ladakh's architecture, one roof at a time

India, July 30 -- Three years ago, when Dechen Angmo's family built a house in Leh city, the family deliberately chose the architecture generations of families in this high-altitude cold desert have t... Read More