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A curved tornado kicking up a brown plume of dirt beneath a dark gray sky
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The Surprising Factor Making the United States a Tornado Hot Spot

by Sushmita Pathak 16 August 202414 August 2024

The roughness of terrain far upstream of where tornadoes occur can affect their formation. It could be what drives the contrast in tornado activity between North and South America.

Diagram from the paper.
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Crustal Melts at the Core-Mantle Boundary

by Thorsten Becker 13 August 202412 August 2024

Seismic waves get sent in all directions for deep mantle anomalies, and a new analysis shows where those scatters lie and what properties they have.

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On the low frequency of rock avalanches in NE Baffin Island

by Dave Petley 22 July 202422 July 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Rock avalanches are an important hazard in areas with fjord topography, potentially impacting humans directly but also having the capability to generate large tsunamis that can cause damage over quite large distances. […]

The 24 June 2024 landslide at Eagle Mine in Canada.
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More information about the 24 June 2024 heap leach landslide at Eagle Mine in Canada

by Dave Petley 27 June 202427 June 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Information is emerging about the 24 June 2024 landslide at Eagle Mine in Yukon, Canada. Northern Miner has a video taken from an aircraft flying over the site that is worth a […]

Planet Labs satellite image of the aftermath of the heap leach landslide at the Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon.
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A major landslide at a heap leach pad at Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon, Canada

by Dave Petley 25 June 202425 June 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In a short statement on its website yesterday, Victoria Gold (“a mining company focused on the Yukon”) confirmed that “the heap leach pad (“HLP”) at the Eagle Gold Mine in Yukon experienced […]

A large, goose-shaped lake stretches across Canada’s Northwest Territories. Two red circles and two yellow triangles mark sites where samples were taken from the lake, and the Slave River and the Hay River are both labeled.
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Arctic Warming Triggers Abrupt Ecosystem Shift in North America’s Deepest Lake

Cheryl Katz, Science Writer by Cheryl Katz 24 October 202330 October 2023

Great Slave Lake’s huge cold water mass shielded it from impacts of the rapidly warming climate—until now.

4 maps from the paper displaying data.
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Modeling Stratospheric Impacts on North American Extreme Events

by William J. Randel 26 September 202326 September 2023

A new study quantifies the tropospheric and surface impacts of extreme stratospheric wave events and evaluates their representation in state-of-the-art climate models.

A debris flow triggered by Storm Hilary in Forest Falls, California. Still from a video posted to Twitter.
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Mudslides and debris flows triggered by Storm Hilary

by Dave Petley 22 August 202322 August 2023

Videos of debris flows and mudflows from Storm Hilary.

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Danger in the Dust! The Hazards of Windblown Dust

by Thomas E. Gill, Daniel Tong, William Sprigg and R. Scott Van Pelt 1 June 202314 July 2023

Airborne dust not only causes disease, it also menaces transportation on land, sea, and air; disrupts renewable energy systems; transports pathogens and toxic substances; and poses many other hazards.

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Tracking Marine Heat Waves

by Robin Donovan 24 May 202324 May 2023

Heat waves can happen in the depths, invisible at the ocean surface.

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