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 analysing Landsat, Planet and Sentinel data, he links this disaster to broader Himalayan risks, arguing that science-based, pre-emptive planning is vital as glacial lakes expand and climate-driven hazards intensify across Kashmir and Ladakh.

When images of the catastrophic floods in Nepal began circulating on social media, the scale and apparent violence of the event immediately caught Kashmiri geoscientist Irfan Rashid's attention, and he scrambled to look for the landscape behind the headlines.

Rashid, Head of the Department of Geoinforma...