After canals go in, fish diversity goes up… many millenia from now
Facing a growing population and increasing demands for fresh water, India is hoping that an engineering fix will help solve its water-scarcity problems. The country’s National Water Development Agency...
View ArticleMultiple landslide impacts worldwide in the last few days
An update on catastrophic landslide events in the last few days in India, Uganda, Bangladesh and Canada
View ArticleA landslide closes a famous hotel in India
The famous Hotel Oberoi Clarkes in Shimla has had to be closed as a result of a landslide that now threatens the building
View ArticleA weekend of landslide incidents
This weekend there were many landslide incidents around the world. This blog post highlights nine of them, in the UK, Austria, Canada, Mexico, India and China
View ArticleLandslides from the South Asian monsoon in 2012 to date
A review of the 2012 monsoon season to date for South Asia. Monsoon rainfall is very weak, leading to an unusually low number of landslides so far.
View ArticleA landslide is rapidly destroying a World Heritage site in India
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a World Heritage site, has been closed by a landslide at Tindharia
View ArticleQuite a cool new debris flow video from India
A nice video of a debris flow in action in India
View ArticleA video illustration of the impacts of riverbank collapse
An interesting video of a house collapsing as a result of riverbank erosion in India
View ArticleLandslides kill at least 19 (and probably many more) in Northern India (with...
Late monsoon Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand in northern India are likely to have killed at least 68 people.
View ArticleLandslides kill 27 people in Sikkim, India
Landslides caused by heavy rainfall have killed at least 27 people in Sikkim, N. India
View ArticleThree late monsoon landslides in Nepal
Three landslides in Nepal yesterday claimed 20 lives
View ArticleA very cool riverbank collapse video
A riverbank collapse landslide video from NE India
View ArticleFirst news of a costly landslide in Mizoram, India
Up to 19 people are reported to have been killed in a landslide in eastern India
View ArticleThe Himalayan Landslide Society and the 11th International Symposium on...
The newly formed Himalayan Landslide Society is organising a meeting on the mitigation of geo-disasters in Asia in October this year
View ArticleThe monsoon arrives early in northern India and Nepal, inflicting a high cost
Early monsoon rainfall in northern India and Nepal has induced landslides and floods that have inflicted a high cost on the local population
View ArticleThe Kedarnath debris flow disaster in Uttarakhand
It is becoming clear that a very large landslide disaster has occurred at Kedarnath in northern India, potentially with a very high level of loss
View ArticleSpeculation on what happened at Kedarnath
Better images are now available of the Kedarnath site, allowing an initial investigation of what happened to cause the disaster
View ArticleBefore and after NASA satellite imagery of the debris flow events at Kedarnath
NASA have made available Landsat 8 images of Kedarnath in Uttarakhand before and after the disaster, allowing an interpretation of the causes of the tragedy
View ArticleImages of landslides from Uttarakhand
Better images of the landslides from the Uttarakhand disaster are now starting to appear. This post presents some examples.
View ArticleNew high resolution images of Kedarnath – the cause of the debris flow...
New images from the NRSC in India allow the causes of the debris flow disaster at Kedarnath to be interpreted
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