Between 4 and 6 August 2023, intense rainfall triggered at least 346 landslides in the area around Ho Bon commune in Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province in Vietnam I have written frequently on this blog about clusters of rainfall-induced landslides. Another really interesting example has been highlighted in a paper (Toan et al. […]
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The 13 September 2024 Ba Thau landslide in Lao Cai province, Vietnam
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Following my post last week about the 10 September 2024 Lang Nu landslide in Vietnam, the first author of the paper, Pham Tien of the Institute of Geological Sciences, Vietnam Academy of […]
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The 10 September 2024 Lang Nu landslide in Vietnam
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. The extraordinary impact of landslides in 2024 continues to become apparent. One major event was the passage of Typhoon Yagi across Vietnam and Myanmar in early September. It has been difficult to […]
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The 10 September 2024 landslide at Lang Nu (Nậm Lúc) in Vietnam
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. As Super Typhoon Yagi roared onshore on 10 September 2024, landslides were triggered across a swathe of Vietnam. The most serious event occurred at Lang Nu (locally written Nậm Lúc), in Lao […]
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Landslide problems on roads in Vietnam
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 13 July 2024, a terrible landslide occurred on a road in the mountainous province of Ha Giang in Vietnam. A minibus travelling along a road in Bac Me District at 4 […]
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La química de los corales refleja la expansión económica del sudeste asiático
La erosión del suelo derivada del desarrollo económico mueve sedimentos hacia el mar del sur de China y también hacia los esqueletos de los corales.
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Coral Chemistry Reflects Southeast Asia’s Economic Expansion
Soil erosion from economic development sent sediments into the South China Sea—and into coral skeletons.
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Remote Sensing Tracks Down “Plastic Plants” in Rivers
Researchers are using remote sensing to track floating mats of plastic trapped in water hyacinth plants.
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Podcast: Space Weather and Global Policy
In the latest episode of its Centennial series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun talks space weather and its influence on global policy with Delores Knipp.