A small truck had a lucky escape when a powerful rockslide hit a road in Chongzhou in Sichuan Province in China
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Radar Tracks Unfortunate Creatures Trapped in Tropical Cyclones
Cyclones can sweep up birds and insects and transport them great distances.
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Earth’s Critical Zone Remains a Mystery Without its People
Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals may only be possible if human activities are central to critical zone science.
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The 12 November 2014 mine waste landslide at Dagushan in Anshan, China
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 12 November 2014, an 8.45 million cubic metre landslide occurred in a mine waste pile at the Dagushan open-pit iron mine in Anshan, China. The failure occurred in a a huge […]
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The Temi landslide – an ancient, valley-blocking failure in Sichuan Province, China
Xie et al. 2023 describe the ancient, 35 million cubic metre, valley-blocking Temi landslide in China.
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A New Perspective on Aerosols and Emissions Over Northern China
During 2013-2019, a distinct seasonality for trends of aerosol concentrations and optical properties was found over Northern China.
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Greening of Loess Plateau Increases Water Yield
Vegetation restoration over the Chinese Loess Plateau can enhance atmospheric moisture convergence, increasing the precipitation enough to compensate for the vegetation water consumption.
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Do Volcanoes Add More Carbon Than They Take Away?
Slow carbon seep long after eruptions have ceased could shape the carbon cycle on geological timescales.
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Bayesian Inversion Used to Recover Geometry of Ruptured Fault
A new Bayesian inversion framework is used to solve non-planar geometry of a ruptured fault from spatially variable slip and rake measured with geodesy.