The glaciers of the Himalayas aren’t safe from climate change. The sudden collapse of a glacier looks to have triggered disaster in Nepal.
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Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in the past.
An analysis shows forestry clear-cutting limits in Tairāwhiti have barely been applied, as new rules take a more permissive stance on slash risk.
The tsunami struck just 12 hours after a cruise ship had left the fjord, rattling the tourism industry.
Landslide risk is rising as extreme rainfall intensifies. New tools using satellite data and AI can help map where failures are most likely.
Satellite remote sensing allows rapid, detailed disaster response and planning. But the rules governing who controls and has access to the data aren’t keeping up.
As heavier rain raises landslide risk, gaps in data, law and funding leave New Zealand relying on response rather than prevention.
After the fatal landslides at Mount Maunganui, attention has focused on recent tree removal from Mauao. But landslides rarely have simple causes.
Tragic slips in the Bay of Plenty highlight how geology, heavy rainfall and climate change are combining to amplify a largely hidden risk.
How can a society afford recurring cycles of disaster management without addressing the ecological interventions that amplify these calamities?
Himalayan floods are natural, but poor planning turns rain into disaster. Reading the land could save lives.
Understanding the movement of granular materials can help with everything from modelling landslides to shifting grains in silos.
Managed retreat can be traumatic and hard. But with good planning, the land left behind can serve new purposes, and make public what was once private.
A million tourists visit Milford Sound every year, including on cruise ships. What is the level of risk from natural disaster New Zealand is prepared to accept?
This tsunami, triggered by a melting glacier in Greenland, is a sign of things to come.
Half of Ethiopia’s territory is prone to medium to very high landslide risk.
Many people who survived the catastrophic landslide in PNG are likely to be facing serious injuries and illness, with warnings of a significant risk of disease outbreaks in the country.
Deforestation can make landslides more likely. But by itself, replanting trees isn’t enough to remove the risk.
Landslides are usually sudden and cause devastation in their wake. Here’s why they are seemingly impossible to predict.
When landslides or glaciers bring rocks to the surface, cosmic rays bombard them, smashing common atoms into rarer forms and acting as a chronometer of the changing Earth.
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