[Last month, I've been serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, and I'm finishing it up at the start of this month.] Decision A may change the political ...

Landslide in the Haiti coastal area, January 2010. (Courtesy: Randy Jibson, US Geological Survey) Transport networks and vulnerable communities at the bottom of slopes could benefit from a landslide ...

Landslides result from a complex interplay of natural conditions, such as steep slopes and weak rock types, as well as human activities like undercutting these slopes, says Tom Gernon, Professor, ...

Across the western US, severe wildfires fueled by tinder-dry vegetation have already burned more than 3.2 million hectares (8 million acres) -- an area the size of Maryland -- as of the end of October ...

This study aims to investigate the association of long-term weight-change slopes, weight fluctuation and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in middle-aged Japanese men and women. Therefore, ...