The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Of course, allow me to start by wishing all my readers a Happy 2026.

Despite consistently rising sea levels, most of Aldabra Atoll’s shoreline hasn’t changed since 1960. Credit: Hansueli Krapf/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 With global sea levels projected to rise 44 ...

Researchers found the unprecedented 2023 East Asian marine heat wave increased land temperatures and humidity by up to 50%.

Plate tectonics just turned 50. The theory of how our planet’s lithosphere—its outer layer—changes shape and evolves is probably one of the most important scientific advancements of all time. Before ...

The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory is a joint Brazilian-German research station with a 325-meter tower making environmental observations in the Amazon. Credit: Achim Edtbauer/MPI-C, CC BY-NC 4.0 The ...

Seismic tomography imaging shows a portion of a “blob” that sits at the base of the mantle below Africa. Slow-wave velocity regions above the blob, including the cusp and branches, could indicate ...

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Telecom fiber repurposed as distributed acoustic sensing arrays can image near-surface structure and potentially improve seismic hazard mapping in urban areas. How much the ground moves during an ...

To improve future tropical cyclone forecasts, researchers sent a remotely operated saildrone into the extreme winds and towering waves around the eye of a category 4 hurricane. Last year, NOAA ...

This article also may be read in Portuguese. In 2018, Brazilian and British scientists were exploring the seafloor around a volcanic plateau known as the Rio Grande Rise when they spotted rocks that ...

Residents of Yakutsk, a city in northeastern Siberia, endure harsh winter weather. This year, January temperatures in Yakutsk fell below –60°C. Credit: Amos Chapple/Lonely Planet Images/Getty Images ...

The Waitepuru Stream flows from its headwaters in the Mokaingarara Hills, down to the Rangitaiki Plains, and through the tiny community of Matatā as it makes its way to New Zealand’s wide Bay of ...