It now appears that about 30 people died in the Samarco talings dam disaster at Bento Rodriguez in Brazil on Thursday. Two tailings dams collapsed, starting with a large upstream structure,

In our recent paper on landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean, Sergio Sepulveda and I looked at human factors in landslide losses across this region, finding that the density of landslides is correlated with population density.

In my latest paper, written with Sergio Sepulveda, Regional trends and controlling factors of fatal landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean, we look at ten years of human losses from landslides across this key area of the world.

More information and images are now available about the Abaetetuba landslide in Brazil

A new paper, Brooks (2013), has investigated a huge quick clay landslide in Canada. It concludes that it formed about 1100 years ago in response to an earthquake

A landslide induced rupture of the Trans-Ecuador pipeline on 31st May is polluting the Coca River, affecting Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. Two shocking videos show the extent of the pollution

Recent heavy rainfall in Norway caused extensive landslides. This video captures the transition from a soil slump to a rapid flow event.

A round-up of interesting landslide stories in the last week, including the UK, New Zealand, Brazil and Malaysia

My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.

An update on recent landslides from around the world, including events in Norway, the Philippines, the UK and Brazil