17 October 2016 07:27 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A simple guide to what happened on the day of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people, most of them children, 50 years ago this week
Tags: Europe, featured, flowslide, landslide report, Wales
7 October 2016 07:23 in Art by Dave Petley
Cantata Memoria is a musical composition by Karl Jenkins, released today, in memory of the October 1966 Aberfan landslide disaster in South Wales,
Tags: art, Europe, featured, flowslide, landslide report, mining, musin, UK
6 September 2016 08:11 in Art by Dave Petley
Landslides in Art part 27: Louise Collis This is part 27 of my occasional Landslides in Art series – see the links at the bottom of the page for some earlier editions, including Part 26, Robyn Collier. This time I am featuring a painting by the artist Louise Collis entitled Blaina Landslide. Louise is a landscape artist based in South Wales. She describes herself as follows: Based in the South …
Tags: art, Europe, featured, United Kingdom, Wales
26 June 2016 08:17 in Art by Dave Petley
Robyn Collier, an artist from New South Wales in Australia, has painted The Landslide, a beautiful image of a rockfall scar in the Blue Mountains
Tags: art, australia, featured, rockfall
15 June 2015 06:38 in Art by Dave Petley
Laura Siersema, an American composer, has written a modern composition to mark the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster next year
Tags: Aberfan, art, featured, music, UK, Wales
20 April 2015 06:41 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
The Bolshaya Talda earthflow, which I featured on this blog on Friday was a mine waster landslide. Readers have helped identify the location of the slide.
Tags: earthflow, featyrd, landslide video, mining, Russia, tailings
18 April 2014 08:15 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In the last week Pathe News has uploaded 88,000 archive news films from 1910 to 1970. Some of these films feature the aftermath of landslides.
8 January 2014 08:39 in Photo gallery by Dave Petley
It is becoming clear that the recent UK storms have markedly altered the rock coasts of parts of England
Tags: arch, coasts, collapse, england, featured, rockfall, UK
3 September 2013 04:22 in Coast by Dave Petley
I have spent the last few days New South Wales in Australia courtesy of the University of Newcastle. This has been a great experience in a very interesting and picturesque city located by the sea. The region is blessed with beautiful beaches, but there are also some cliffs that are actively eroding. One prominent feature in Newcastle is known as Nobbys Head, an interesting former small island, now linked to …
4 January 2013 10:09 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A round-up of interesting landslide stories in the last week, including the UK, New Zealand, Brazil and Malaysia
Tags: brazil, featured, malaysia, New Zealand, UK
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