A large landslide last week is thought to have killed over 2000 people from the village of Ab Barek in north-eastern Afghanistan. This is one of the worst landslide disasters of recent years, a timely… [read more]

With two 'Rockfalls, rockslides, and rock avalanches' sessions scheduled for the annual European Geosciences Union meeting on Friday the 2nd of May, the TU Landslides group will be particularly busy.… [read more]

The tectonic stress feedback loop used by Kerry Leith and co-authors to explain U-shaped glacial valley formation has this week been featured as a research spotlight in the American Geophysical Union… [read more]

Philipp Mamot joins the TUM Landslide Research group to begin a 3-year study of rock slope instabilities in one of the most hazardous regions of Germany. Following the completion of his MSc at… [read more]

Julian Murton from the University of Sussex presented contributions to a study soon to be published in Nature journal. In his presentation he discussed yedoma at Duvanny Yar, NE Siberia: a rich source… [read more]

Kerry Leith and co-authors have just had two new articles accepted in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The companion papers detail the gradual development of stress and fracturing during… [read more]

Kerry Leith presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The meeting attracts over 20,000 geoscientists from around the world, and is a good way to up-to-date with the… [read more]

Anne Voigtländer has joined the Landslide Research group as a PhD candidate.  Anne is a recent graduate from the Department of Geography at Bonn University, and will investigate "Environmental… [read more]

Michael Krautblatter, Daniel Draebing, Markus Keuschnig, and Hailiang Jia presented results of recently completed work at the 6th working group meeting of the AK Permafrost in Salzburg on 24.-26.… [read more]

Michael Krautblatter and Daniel Draebing had their most recent manuscript accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. By carefully measuring changes in the speed… [read more]