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27 February 2015
George Monbiot and the Harbury landslide
The writer George Monbiot has linked the Harbury landslide with the removal of vegetation from the embankment that failed. This does not seem to be correct based on the images on Google Earth and from the scene
19 January 2012
Landslides in the British Newspaper Archive
An interesting ongoing project is the creation of the British Newspaper Archive, which seeks to digitise the British Library’s back catalogue of newspapers over the next decade. This will provide searchable access to 40 million pages of historic news. The newspapers date from 1800. The team is only part way through the project, but the scanned material to date (and it should be added that they are scanning up to …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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