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Google Earth image from July 2024 showing the 12 February 2021 Chunchi landslide in Ecuador.
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The 12 February 2021 Chunchi landslide in Ecuador

by Dave Petley 4 April 20254 April 2025

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. As landslides in Ecuador are currently in the news, it is interesting to reflect on perhaps the largest failure there in recent years. On 12 February 2021, the massive Chunchi landslide occurred […]

The source area of the 30 March 2025 landslide near to Chuanazana in Ecuador
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A large landslide near to Chanazana in Nabón, Ecuador

by Dave Petley 3 April 20253 April 2025

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. I highlighted yesterday that Ecuador is being very significantly affected by landslides triggered by high levels of rainfall at the moment. A good example occurred on 30 March 2025 close to Chanazana […]

Una persona agachada en un campo cultivado.
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Cómo el volcán Tungurahua arrojó metales pesados en el suministro alimentario de Ecuador

by Andrew J. Wight 6 June 202410 June 2024

Cuando el volcán Tungurahua de Ecuador entró en erupción múltiples veces entre 1999 y 2016, las comunidades agrícolas cercanas fueron cubiertas por ceniza, la cual dejó metales pesados en sus cultivos.

Brown-gray ash covers a building and surrounding fields.
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How Tungurahua Volcano Dropped Heavy Metals into Ecuador’s Food Supply

by Andrew J. Wight 13 May 20246 June 2024

When Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano erupted multiple times between 1999 and 2016, nearby farming communities were covered in ash, which left heavy metals in their crops.

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Mapeo de la convergencia entre pobladores, pesticidas y áreas protegidas

by Gabriel Filippelli 17 July 202318 July 2023

La exposición a pesticidas puede afectar la salud humana y de los ecosistemas. Una investigación reciente aplica modelos cartográficos en Ecuador, los cuales pueden ser exportados a otras escalas para limitar estos impactos adversos en otras regiones.

Map from the paper.
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Mapping Intersections of Pesticides, Protected Areas, and People

by Gabriel Filippelli 17 July 202318 July 2023

Pesticide exposures can impact human and ecosystem health, and new research uses a modeling approach applied to Ecuador that can be scaled and exported to limit negative impacts in other regions.

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Amazon Basin Tree Rings Hold a Record of the Region’s Rainfall

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 11 October 202221 June 2023

New research provides a 200-year reconstruction of interannual rainfall in the Amazon basin using oxygen isotopes preserved in tree rings in Ecuador and Bolivia.

In the humid highlands of San Cristóbal Island, researchers take soil samples from a pit.
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The Galápagos Islands: The Ultimate Outdoor Soil Science Laboratory

by DJ McCauley 28 March 202228 March 2022

A new study has spurred further research into the impacts of soil formation on modern-day problems like heavy metal contamination in agricultural soils.

Explosion and pyroclastic flows at El Reventador volcano.
Posted inScience Updates

Ecuador’s El Reventador Volcano Continually Remakes Itself

by M. Almeida, H. E. Gaunt and P. Ramón 18 March 20192 May 2022

A research team from Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute keeps a close eye on an unusually active and unstable volcano in the nation’s remote jungles.

Researchers use radar satellite imagery to measure changes in the topography of Ecuador’s El Reventador volcano
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Using Radar to Understand How Volcanic Eruptions Evolve

by Terri Cook 5 January 201827 October 2021

Radar satellite imagery can be used to measure constructional changes in the topography of long-lived volcanoes, according to a new study of Ecuador’s El Reventador volcano.

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