Time-Lapse of 18 months of a Himalayan glacier New research tracked the Drang Drung Glacier and found its lake-side edge moves twice as fast as the land-side. You can actually watch meltwater lift the ice and turn the clear blue lake muddy in just a few days. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some ideas sit in the "someday" pile for years. This one finally made it out. My personal website has been on my list longer than I would like to admit. Not because it was hard, but because it never felt like the right time to start. It is a simple first version, and still evolving praveenkalura.com

Just published a new post on UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature 2026 and the “Big Nature Turnaround” using the Nature Transition X-Curve to show what has to change: nature-negative finance is ~US$7.3T vs ~US$220B for NbS. #Climateaction @ecowarriorss.bsky.social medium.com/@praveenkalu...

Water isn’t just “scarce” in many places. It’s becoming insolvent. This article explains water bankruptcy: when withdrawals keep exceeding renewable supply and societies start draining (and damaging) long-term reserves like aquifers and wetlands, often beyond recovery. Read: lnkd.in/gucqseBi

Great to see science, culture, and collaboration come together in such a unique setting. From flash forum orals to riverside walks, this was more than just a conference. Nice Article by: oriescc.bsky.social hs.egu.eu @iahs-aish.bsky.social blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

Grateful for a productive week at the XIIth IAHS Scientific Assembly at IIT Roorkee, India. Learned from leading global researchers and scientists. Congratulations to the organizers for an outstanding and highly successful event. #IAHS2025 #Hydrology #IITRoorkee

Pre-event (13 Jun 2024) and post-event (7 Aug 2025) satellite images of Dharali, Uttarkashi, India reveal how a sudden cloudburst unleashed mudflows that blanketed the Bhagirathi and Kheer Gad channels in thick grey sediment, erasing roads, orchards and buildings. #Disaster #Flood #ISRO #Cloudburst

Cloudburst-induced flash flood and debris flow devastated village in Uttarkashi, India today. A glacial sedimentary deposit at 6,700 m, 7 km upstream, triggered by intense rainfall, caused rapid debris flow through a steep nala, reaching Dharali in under a minute. www.linkedin.com/posts/pravee...

Aug 5th 2025, flash floods due to cloudburst in Uttarakhand, India represent a tragic and complex natural disaster, highlighting the vulnerability of mountainous regions to extreme weather events. The vulnerability to extreme weather events demands urgent focus on resilient infrastructure and EWS.

After AlphaEarth Foundations newly launched Geospatial Reasoning by Google. This is a collection of AI models designed to solve complex spatial problems. From predicting weather patterns to forecasting floods and planning urban development. #RemoteSensing #GIS research.google/blog/geospat...

Google's Satellite Embedding dataset offers 64D vectors capturing land dynamics globally. We're applying it in Earth Engine for crop classification for India, mapping agricultural patterns with high precision. #Geospatial #Agriculture #India #RemoteSensing #AI deepmind.google/discover/blo...

India-US space collaboration hits new heights! The $1.5B NISAR satellite, jointly developed by ISRO & NASA, launched today aboard GSLV F-16 — set to scan the entire Earth every 12 days, aiding agriculture, disaster response & climate research #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing

XAI: a magnifying glass for AI in geoscience XAI enhances understanding of geoscience AI systems by revealing data imperfections, such as spurious correlations, and pinpointing model limitations, including sensitivity to minor image variations in RS applications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Concerning trend shown in the Earth Overshoot Day chart (1971-2025). The date moves earlier each year, with 2025 at 1.8 Earths indicating unsustainable resource use. Over-consumerism is a key driver. Super rich should reduce their carbon footprint. #EarthOvershootDay #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

We developed a differentiable, physically interpretable model for regulated catchments, integrating reservoir dynamics and leveraging satellite-based indirect observations to overcome reservoir data limitations. @ashutoshhydro.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Our latest Hydrological Processes study improves hydrologic model calibration using bias-insensitive metrics of spatial patterns & temporal dynamics of GLEAM ET and limited streamflow data. TOPSIS selects optimal strategies transparently. #RemoteSensing #GLEAM onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I’m having trouble separating natural forests from plantations in my LULC maps using GEE—they often get merged into same class.I want to separate them using unsupervised classification only. What additional data, indices or processing steps would you recommend to distinguish them more reliably?

Posting it on Bluesky to save the post: My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social #MolecularNodes #Science #STEM

Just discovered the “Insect Hotel” – logs drilled with varied-diameter holes to create nesting sites for solitary bees, wasps, ladybugs & other beneficial insects. Boosts pollination, natural pest control & local biodiversity. Photo Credit: Pujan Thapa

While analyzing FAO WaPOR Biomass data, I noticed a striking pattern along a river: one bank shows high vegetation growth, the other much lower. Remote sensing (RS) data reveals these stark differences in Total Biomass Productivity (TBP), possibly due to irrigation, soil type, or groundwater. #IWMI

Our latest study reveals sustainable grazing strategies for semi-arid rangeland. We recommend an enhancement of infrastructure and market integration, coupled with specific zoning as the prerequisite sustainable land management practices. #LDD #SDGs Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Most rivers, especially in remote or rural areas, have no streamflow gauges. That makes it hard to predict floods, manage water or plan infrastructure. Researchers use LSTM to estimate upstream flow based on observed downstream flow. @ciroh.bsky.social awi.ua.edu/news/machine...

This is fascinating ! The Mysterious Line That Divides India – How Data Visualization Helps You Uncover Hidden Insights www.linkedin.com/pulse/myster...

Recently attended training at National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee on the EQIPA platform, organized by the World Bank. EQIPA is a web-based tool utilising satellite data to evaluate irrigation performance via ET analysis, providing critical insights for optimizing water use in agriculture. #RSGIS

India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty sparks debate. Hydro expert Iftikhar Drabu says reviewing the treaty is key due to climate change & population growth, but storing water in J&K rivers faces challenges like topography & silting. #WaterManagement #IndusWatersTreaty #JammuKashmir #Pahalgam

🌄 Master the Art of Relief Maps with Tanaka Highlights! Discover how to transform your geospatial data into stunning contour maps and 3D terrains using the Tanaka method. 👉 Watch now: 🔗 youtu.be/q4GIQGRnTNI

Check out this HydroLearn course by Prof. Huidae Cho (NMSU) and Prof. Fahmidah Ashraf (Bradley Univ)! Perfect for hydrology students, it covers machine learning for flood inundation mapping and sustainable vs. resilient bridge design. #Hydrology #MachineLearning edx.hydrolearn.org/courses/cour...

Biomass satellite launched by ESA on April 29, measures forest biomass using P-band radar, aiding climate & carbon cycle research. This mission, part of ESA’s FutureEO programme, will address significant uncertainties in carbon stocks & fluxes, essential for climate change mitigation. #ESA #Biomass

GeoGPT is here: The first AI model for geosciences, trained on open-access data to advance research globally! GeoGPT is already empowering researchers in the Global South. geoscientist.online/sections/vie... #GeoGPT #OpenScience #Geospatial #AI #LLM #GPT

India is set to submit its first-ever National Adaptation Plan to the UNFCCC by September, aligning with the Paris Agreement. This comprehensive framework aims to address climate change impacts across economic and social sectors #ClimateChange #Policy #SDGs www.business-standard.com/india-news/i...

Interesting article on "Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) for Satellite Image Time Series Classification" by William Ouellette. DTW allows comparing the similarity of pairs of temporal patterns of heterogeneous lengths and/or sampling intervals. medium.com/soilwatch/dy...

New Jersey wildfire forces evacuations and reaches closed nuclear power plant www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Our choices this decade will shape the world our children inherit. A child born in 2020 faces different futures by 2090. We’re at +1.1°C since pre-industrial times. Low emissions = temperature stability. High emissions =warming beyond 2100 shorturl.at/fm6pp #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #UHI #SDGs

Katy Perry’s 11-min space trip emitted more CO₂ than a billion people’s lifetimes. Blue Origin’s launches spew 50 tons of CO₂ per passenger, dwarfing most emissions. This is climate inequality. Will we stop normalizing pollution as luxury? www.thegamer.com/katy-perry-1... #Emissions #Climatechange

In a time of rampant climate change denial, Hubert Reeves’ words sting: 'Man worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature,' not seeing Nature as the divine he reveres. It’s time to wake up and protect what’s sacred. #ClimateChange #Nature

We’d need three Earths if everyone lived like the average European. The 2023 update not only quantified all boundaries, it also concluded that six of the nine boundaries have been transgressed. www.stockholmresilience.org/research/pla... #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #SDGs

🚨 I have another record to share - carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged a record high of 428.2 ppm in March 2025 10 years ago March averaged about 401.7 ppm Provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/. Climate monitoring and data like this are at risk. #StandUpForScience

The ecohydrology team, under Dr. Meng Zhao at the University of Idaho, USA, is offering a NASA-funded postdoctoral role exploring remote sensing of hydrology and dryland ecosystems. #Postdoc #PhD #Openings #Jobs #Research #Opentowork www.webpages.uidaho.edu/mengz/#openi...

Post by @unicef.org To protect children from the impacts of climate change, leaders must urgently invest in climate adaptation plans #ForEveryChild #UNICEF #ClimateJustice #SDGs #Disatsers #Floods

UK startup Space Intelligence uses satellite tech to boost trust in forest carbon credits with real-time data, tackling climate change head-on. #CarbonCredits #ClimateTech" carboncredits.com/whats-next-f...

Water-related disasters have dominated the list of disasters over the past 50 years & account for 70 per cent of all deaths related to natural disasters. Drought frequency & duration have risen by 29% since 2000 due to climate change threatening water & food security www.un.org/en/climatech...

Another new climate visualization to kick off the week... this time series trace follows temperature anomalies in the polar regions. However, there are greater uncertainties on this graph compared to the other regions, especially in the Antarctic. Follow it monthly at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Great News for all of us who don't like twitter anymore.

The IPCC Scholarship Programme provides scholarships for PhD students from developing countries for research that advances the understanding of the scientific basis of risks of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

I’d like to share my latest project using Google Earth Engine to support the campaign to #SaveKanchaGachibowliForest. By comparing Sentinel-2 images from Mar 28 & Apr 2, 2025, the app shows clear reduction in forest cover. 🌐 App: praveenkalura.users.earthengine.app/view/savekgf #GeoSpatial #GEE

Deadline extended to April 10!!

For researchers in meteorology & hydrology—check out IMDWEB, an open‑source Python library based dashboard that streamlines retrieval, processing & analysis of gridded meteorological data from IMD over India in easy to use formats. imdweb.lwcc.in Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.en... #GeoSpatial #Data

The destruction of 400 acres of forest in Hyderabad’s Kancha Gachibowli—a critical carbon sink—threatens peacocks and 220+ bird species, intensify global warming. Climate science demands we protect these ecosystems! Development shouldn't come at the cost of nature. #EnvironmentalProtection #SDG​

Ever felt overwhelmed by large amount of Remote Sensing data for Hydrology? Streamline your Hydrology Remote Sensing with this community-driven Cheat Sheet! Find & compare key datasets, contribute your suggestions. connect.agu.org/hydrology/ab... #Hydrology #RemoteSensing #Opendata #Science

FDRI @ukceh.bsky.social has released details of our new (free!) training offering "Data Driven Approaches to Hydrological Science" to be delivered 14th-16th July with @gemmacoxon.bsky.social www.ceh.ac.uk/training/dat...