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9 July 2021
A very disruptive start to the summer monsoon in Nepal
The start of the 2021 summer monsoon in Nepal has brought unusual levels of rainfall. So far at least 27 people have been killed in landslides
2 July 2021
The cause of the Melamchi disaster in Nepal
Satellite images collected by Planet Labs appear to confirm that a landslide dam was the cause of the 14 June 2021 Melamchi disaster in Nepal
7 June 2021
The South Asian monsoon in the time of a pandemic
The South Asian monsoon in the time of a pandemic: the impacts of the severe Covid-19 wave in India and Nepal mean that vulnerability of landslides is likely to be high.
15 April 2021
Changing rainfall patterns in the Indian monsoon with future warming
A new paper in the journal Earth System Dynamics suggests that future warming will drive an increase in rainfall in the Indian monsoon. This is likely to increase landslide impacts in the most seriously affected landslide region.
10 March 2021
The evolution of landslides after the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake
A new open access paper in the journal Progress in Disaster Science (Rosser et al. 2021) demonstrates that the number of landslides in W. and C. Nepal has increased since the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.
19 February 2021
Trends in landslides and landslide losses in Nepal over three decades
New research (Muñoz-Torrero Manchado et al. 2021), published in Landslides, investigates trends in landslides and landslide losses in W. Nepal over three decades. It highlights the key role of human factors in determining patterns of loss
1 October 2020
An interesting video showing large-scale liquefaction in a landslide
An interesting video showing large-scale liquefaction in a landslide, reportedly in Shillong, northern India.
24 July 2020
The deadly start to the monsoon season in Nepal
The first few weeks of the SW monsoon in Nepal has seen large numbers of landslides. By 20 July the number of fatal landslides had already exceeded the average annual total for the last 15 years.
14 July 2020
Deadly monsoon-induced landslides in Nepal in the last few days
Over the last few days intense monsoon rainfall in Nepal has triggered a wave of landslides that have caused extensive loss of life and damage.
23 September 2019
Kerala – the hungry rains
There is increasing concern about the impact of monsoon-induced landslides in Kerala in southwest India, resulting from poor land use management
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