The Los Angeles fires are a national disaster of epic proportions. City officials, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President-elect Donald Trump have traded accusations about what caused this crisis. But as an engineering professor who lives...
Researchers have discovered two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, signatures of long-dried bodies of water preserved in the rock record. Wave ripples are small undulations in the sandy shores of lakebeds, created as wind-driven...
Landslides are one of the most destructive natural disasters on the planet, causing billions of dollars of damage and devastating loss of life every...
Climate change is driving more volatile precipitation patterns around the world—very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large amounts of rain or snow...
The threat of slope instability will be easier to predict in future. Scientists working on an Austrian Science Fund project have succeeded in developing...
