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A mudslide struck the open-pit sector of Codelco's El Teniente copper mine, in Machalí, in Chile's O'Higgins Region, around 2 p.m. local time Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, Carabineros Lieutenant Fernando…
A rockfall collapsed the roof of a cave near Urzulei, in Sardinia's Ogliastra province. The collapse happened early Sunday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2026. It trapped a speleologist about 10 meters below…
Human-caused climate change had added about 1.5 °C to July and August temperatures at the Himalayan slope that gave way on Aug. 26, 2026, the World Weather Attribution network reported on Sept. 17.…
Zhang Qianggong was chairing a regional cryosphere meeting in Chengdu on the morning of 26 August when messages began going around a work chat group. His first thought was that it looked like an…
Twelve geologists, six months, a thousand square kilometers of hillside. That was the price of mapping by hand what two rainstorms did to Emilia-Romagna in May 2023. Tens of thousands of slopes gave…
On 28 May 2025, a mountainside above the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland gave way. Rock had been loading onto the Birchgletscher for years; when the glacier finally failed, roughly 9.57…
The intuitive story about landslides is simple: more rain, more slides. A century of Calabrian records tells a more unsettling one. Working in the mountainous toe of the Italian peninsula, Stefano…