Naina in Khaptad, Nepal: the terrible impacts of low quality, poorly-engineered roads in high mountain areas

In Tblisi, Georgia, a 500,000 cubic metre landslide has developed on the edge of the metropolitan area, probably triggered by construction of a road

A consortium has produced a very useful guide to the design and construction of eco-safe rural roads in high mountain areas

Gareth Hearn has written a very nice paper in QJEGH that considers landslide problems on Nepal rural roads, highlighting the need for better route selection and design

The 15 November 2021 2021 Duffey Lake landslide in Canada: the role of old logging roads in triggering slope failures

Arhavi, Turkey: a new paper in the Journal Natural Hazards (Tanyaş et al. 2022) shows that landslide impacts of new roads can be comparable to that of a medium sized earthquake

An Indian government official claimed yesterday that the Char Dham highway project in India is not responsible for causing landslides. This is demonstrably incorrect.

The Char Dham Project: landslides associated with a major road construction and widening programme in northern India

A double tragedy: two landslides close to the construction site of the Rao Trang 3 hydroelectric plant in Vietnam

Late on Friday 13 December 2019 a large wedge failure developed on a cut rock slope on the E18 motorway at Larvik in Norway