Landslides and mudslides articles
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Is Labour about to win a local election landslide?
Councillors, mayors and police commissioners across England and Wales are facing voters this week. What’s at stake? Helen Pidd reportsThis week voters in more than 100 local authorities in England and Wales are heading to the polls. And Labour are predicted to win big. Helen Pidd travelled to Accrington in Hyndburn, where the local authority has an equal number of Labour and Conservative councillors, to see what people there thought about the local elections.What she found was a more complicated...
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A new way to study and help prevent landslides
Landslides are one of the most destructive natural disasters on the planet, causing billions of dollars of damage and devastating loss of life every year. By introducing a new paradigm for studying landslide shapes and failure types, a global team of researchers has provided help for those who work to predict landslides and risk evaluations.
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Floods and landslide kill 14 in Indonesia's Sulawesi island
A flood and a landslide hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing 14 people, the National Disaster Management Agency said Saturday. Torrential rain pounding the area since Thursday triggered a landslide in Luwu district in South Sulawesi province, said Mexianus Bekabel, head of Makassar search and rescue office.