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An initial view of the 10 August 2025 landslide onto the South Sawyer Glacier.
Posted inThe Landslide Blog

Updates from the Alaska Earthquake Center regarding the 10 August 2025 landslide

by Dave Petley 13 August 202513 August 2025

The location of this major event has now been identified. It was a major rock slope failure that ran out across the South Sawyer Glacier. The Alaska Earthquake Center has now provided a detailed update about the 10 August 2025 landslide that occurred in the area of Tracy Arm. This work has been led by […]

The 15 July 2025 quick clay landslide at Portneuf in Canada.
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The 15 July 2025 quick clay landslide at Portneuf in Canada

by Dave Petley 5 August 20255 August 2025

A quick clay landslide in the Quebec region has destroyed most of a farm and a local road. Over the next few days I will try to bring the blog up to date with some of the major landslides that have occurred whilst I have been on leave. To start, on 15 July 2025 an […]

Google Earth image of the landslide at the Barry Glacier in Alaska in 2019.
Posted inThe Landslide Blog

Landslides during periods of glacial retreat in Alaska

by Dave Petley 30 June 202530 June 2025

An excellent new paper (Walden et al. 2025) examines the occurrence of accelerated movement in rock slope landslides in Alaska as adjacent glaciers melt. The exceptional temperatures in recent days in both North America and Europe has once again highlighted the rate at which the climate is changing in response to anthropogenic increases in greenhouse […]

The uplifted toe of the May 2025 Yukon River landslide.
Posted inThe Landslide Blog

Images of the May 2025 Yukon River landslide

by Dave Petley 18 June 202518 June 2025

Derek Cronmiller of the Yukon Geological Survey has provided a stunning set of the images of the fascinating recent failure that partially blocked the Yukon River. Following my post yesterday about the May 2025 landslide on the Yukon River, Derek Cronmiller, who is head of Surficial Geology at the Yukon Geological Survey kindly made contact […]

The May 2025 landslide on the Burma River in Yukon.
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A large landslide on the Yukon River in Canada

by Dave Petley 17 June 202517 June 2025

In May 2025, a 950 m wide landslide occurred on the banks of the Yukon River in Canada. A few days ago, the Yukon Geological Survey posted some information to its Facebook site regarding a large landslide that has occurred on the banks of the Yukon River close to Burma Road. This was the information […]

A drone image of the site of the 21 May 2025 quick clay landslide at Sainte Monique in Canada. Still from a drobe video posted to Youtube by Radio-Canada Info.
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The 21 May 2025 quick clay landslide at Sainte Monique in Quebec, Canada

by Dave Petley 22 May 202522 May 2025

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 21 May 2025, a family lost their home to a quick clay landslide in Sainte Monique, to the northeast of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Radio-Canada Info has posted to Youtube some […]

一张黑白卫星图像显示一条小河从一条大河中分出。
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那些科学上认为不应该存在的河流

by Rebecca Dzombak 8 May 20258 May 2025

乍一看,这些水道似乎毫无意义。一篇新的评论文章详细阐述了它们为何如此存在。

Map of a study region and photo of a canoe in a river.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Strange Branching of Water Flows Through Rivers and Lakes

by Georgia Destouni 8 April 20253 April 2025

Sometimes rivers split into branches in unusual ways, reflecting the complexity of Earth’s water system on land and how much we still must learn about it.

Graphs from the study.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Investigating Rainfall-Rich Periods in North America

by Alberto Montanari 3 April 20253 April 2025

A record of soil moisture that extends over one thousand years allows for the investigation of occurrence and causes of modern and historical rainfall-rich periods.

A black-and-white satellite image shows a small river branching off from a larger one.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

The Rivers That Science Says Shouldn’t Exist

by Rebecca Dzombak 1 April 20258 May 2025

At first glance, these waterways make no sense. A new review article details why they are the way they are.

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