After a wildfire, the danger continues, especially during torrential rain that can set off fast-moving landslides known as debris flows. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a San Francisco-based reporter on The ...

While firefighters work to extinguish the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are also worried about what could come next. The potential for rain the weekend of Jan.

The landslide that occurred in Blatten in the canton of Valais at the end of May 2025 and the one in the village of Brienz in Graubünden in June 2023 remind us of the potential for landslide hazards ...

Sterling Klippel is awed by the beauty of nature but spends his working days resisting its power. Casting worried glances at a gray sky above the Sierra Madre Dam in the foothills of the San Gabriel ...

Jen Pierce receives funding from the National Science Foundation and is the chair of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology division of the Geological Society of America. As the Los Angeles area ...

Southern California is expected to finally receive some rainfall beginning this weekend, meteorologists said on Friday, Jan. 24, with on-and-off showers bringing up to an inch and a half of rain in ...

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