The aftermath of the 20 February 2026 garbage landslide at Rodriguez in the Philippines. Still from a video posted to Facebook by PTV. Three people were killed in a major failure at a privately owned ...

Dymer Creek (foreground) flows into the Chesapeake Bay near the town of White Stone, Va. The pH of coastal waterways such as the Chesapeake is influenced by both the acidification of the ocean and the ...

Butterflies are often considered bellwether species for climate change, and to retain the cooler climates they need for their life cycles, species around the world have been shifting their habitats ...

A new study tracked methane leaks from abandoned oil wells throughout Canada, like this one in Pioneer, Alberta. Credit: Jason Woodhead/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Canada is home to more than 400,000 ...

The Amazon saw its worst wildfire season in decades in 2024. New research examines the consequences. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA Wildfires in the rainy, humid Amazon might once have seemed unlikely, but ...

A massive gully has been developing over the last two decades at Pondok Balik. It now covers an area of over 3 hectares. In Indonesia, a massive and rapidly developing gully is causing considerable ...

When oil wells, such as this one in Alberta, Canada, are abandoned and left unplugged they become “orphan wells,” that pose risks to nearby groundwater. Credit: Jason Woodhead, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 This ...

Satellite image of an area of Myanmar after the 2025 Mandalay earthquake. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 31 March 2025. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, ...

Canoes rest on the banks of a rice lake in the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation, in Minnesota. Credit: Madeline Nyblade Wild rice, also known as manoomin in Ojibwemowin, the language of the Ojibwe ...

The Moon’s farside is heavily cratered and mostly lacks the dark volcanic basins of the familiar nearside. The South Pole–Aitken basin, the oldest and largest crater on the Moon, is the large dark ...

The prevailing view of mammal activity in ecosystems is that they have marginal impacts to services like greenhouse gas emissions. However, that is not always the case, especially with large, feral ...

A new analysis maps increasing incidents of wildfire on the edges of Terra Indígena do Vale do Javari, an Indigenous territory in western Brazil. Credit: Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND ...