Two people are dead after a landslide hit their home in New Zealand, and authorities are searching for several others feared dead in a separate slip at a busy campground. The two landslides, about 17 ...

More than 157 people were killed and at least 400 are missing after a glacial collapse in Nepal. A similar event occurred last year when an avalanche of rocks and ice from the Birch Glacier in ...

Landslides cause an estimated $3 billion to $6 billion in damage and multiple fatalities annually in the United States. Those numbers could easily increase as housing needs spur development in ...

Roughly 6.5 million people in the U.S. live in areas that are highly susceptible to landslides. West Coast residents — including those on the Oregon Coast and Washington’s Puget Sound — face the ...

More than 4,500 people in Eugene-Springfield live on existing deep landslides. A new landslide research center based at University of Michigan is collaborating with University of Oregon and others to ...

When Darlene Kurkendall closes her eyes, she imagines the walls of her house falling away. She sees the people in her community — friends, neighbors, family — swept out of sight by a horrendous heap ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deadly landslide that crashed through the outskirts of Wrangell on the night of Nov. 20, 2023, is seen from the air on the ...

Scientists have detected evidence of landslides on Pluto for the first time. A paper published in the journal Icarus reports that images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during a flyby revealed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A landslide is a sudden and powerful movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope. They happen when the forces pulling ...