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 ...

Storms now pounding Southern California are raising the specter of more danger for residents—debris flows in areas already reeling from devastating fires. Debris flows are like mudslides, except much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Areas near Los Angeles have been devastated by wildfires, namely the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire which started on Jan. 7 and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A debris flow channel in a severely burned watershed in Idaho. Amirhossein Montazeri/Boise State University, CC BY-ND As the Los ...

Mickelson is walking through the Bolt Creek burn scar. The fire started in September of 2022 and burned just shy of 15,000 acres north of Highway 2 in Washington, about halfway between Seattle and ...

In October and November 2007, an unprecedented series of wildfires struck the entire southern half of California, and once again thousands of homes were either in flames or threatened by them, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles wildfires were still burning when scientists started scouting the freshly charred burn scars to search for signs of another danger that’s yet to come — roaring torrents of rock and mud ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Eight years after the Eagle Creek Fire scorched nearly 50,000 acres in the Columbia River Gorge, a new report shows the fire helped pave the way for hundreds of dangerous ...