Landslide News

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Millions Of Pounds Of Trash Found On Ocean Beaches

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Proximity To A Flood Zone Lowers Property Values

Posted February 22, 2008:

• Post-Katrina Rebuilding? Mississippi Delta Both Spongy And Stable

Posted December 6, 2007:

• Earth Observation Essential For Geohazard Mitigation

Posted November 22, 2007:

• Enormous Submarine Landslide 60,000 Years Ago Produced The Longest Flow Of Sand And Mud On Earth

Posted September 3, 2007:

• When The Levees Fail

Posted June 26, 2007:

• New Tool Determines Landslide Risk In Tropics

Posted February 26, 2007:

• Bacteria Could Steady Buildings Against Earthquakes

Posted November 7, 2006:

• Joining Forces To Predict Tsunamis: Pan-European Approach To Disaster Prevention

Posted September 12, 2006:

• Predicting An Answer To The Threat Of Flooding

Posted May 24, 2006:

• New Space Observations Poised To Save Lives From Floods, Landslides

Posted May 17, 2006:

• Researchers Assess Risks Associated With Living In Low-lying Coastal Areas

Posted March 17, 2006:

• Chance Discovery: Alaska Range Glacier Surges

Posted November 22, 2005:

• Dragon Over Water: Envisat Monitors China's Largest Lake, Rivers Flooding

Posted October 24, 2005:

• Recent Landslides In La Conchita, California Belong To Much Larger Prehistoric Slide

Posted September 2, 2005:

• Chemicals Entering Coastal Waters: Freshwater And Saltwater Interactions In Coastal Groundwater

Posted April 3, 2005:

• Post-Tsunami Thailand Yields Lessons For Coastal Construction

Posted March 28, 2005:

• High Risk Of Major Tsunami In Northern Caribbean: Over 35 Million Could Be Affected

Posted January 23, 2005:

• Sinking Coastline May Precede Large Subduction Zone Quakes

Posted August 19, 2004:

• Canary Islands Landslides And Mega-Tsunamis: Should We Really Be Frightened?

Posted June 25, 2004:

• Researchers Detail Landslides With Powerful New Space-born Imaging Techniques

Posted February 24, 2004:

• New Mudslides Expected With Heavy Storms In Southern California

Posted December 11, 2003:

• Last Catastrophic Landslide Protects Kilauea From Next

Posted November 19, 2003:

• After The Forest Fire: Evergreen Needles Prevent Soil Erosion

Posted October 28, 2003:

• Improved Remote Mapping Of Disaster Zones: Columbia Researchers Develop "Fingerprinting" Techniqhes For Synthetic Aperture Radar Mapping

Posted June 17, 2002:

• Noah's Flood Hypothesis May Not Hold Water

Posted February 6, 2002:

• Tsunami Researcher Makes Big Splash With Landslide Model

Posted May 25, 2001:

• Researchers Test Breakaway Walls For Coastal Homes, Buildings

Posted November 16, 2000:

• University At Buffalo Research Offers First Evidence That Massive Lava Flows Triggered Apocalyptic Climate Changes

Posted July 25, 2000:

• Trapped Water Could Be A Cause For Underwater Landslides, Tidal Waves

Posted May 10, 2000:

• New Geological Research Suggests Undersea Cracks Along East Coast Continental Shelf Pose Danger Of Landslides And Tsunamis

Posted January 21, 2000:

• New Orleans ... The New Atlantis?

Posted June 29, 1999:

• Landslides Will Continue To Impact U.S. -- Tumbling Rocks Cost Dollars And Lives

Posted April 1, 1999:

• 'Shock Therapy' Exceeds Expectations In Cleaning Up Contaminated Soils

Posted October 28, 1998:

• Long Lava Flows May Have Taken Years, Causing Global Cooling And Extinctions

Posted August 24, 1998:

• Scientific Team Returns From Tsunami Site

Posted August 21, 1997:

• A 'CAT Scan' Of Mount Rainier Detects Quake Hazards

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