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Ten Houses Lost to Riverbank Collapse in An Giang and the on-going Crisis

On May 18, 2025, a 70-meter stretch of riverbank along the Ong Chuong River in Vietnam’s An Giang Province failed, causing the rear sections of ten homes in Cho Moi District to collapse into the wate...

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Case Study: The Failing Mechanism of the Tailing Dam Breach at Kolontár, Hungary

A new case recently published by Jozsef Garai and Imre Kovács at the ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, reveals the failing mechanism of the Ajka Alumina tailing dam at Ko...

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Reducing Laughing Gas from WWTPs: A Practical Engineering Approach

Nitrous oxide (N₂O), often associated with medical or culinary uses, is also a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential nearly 300 times that of CO₂. A lesser-known but significant sourc...

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Sinking Cities: The U.S. Subsidence Crisis

A recent study has revealed a trend affecting the stability of American urban infrastructure: land subsidence. Using high-resolution satellite radar data, researchers identified that all but three of...

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Seequent announced extended gINT support until Dec 31, 2028

Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company, announced that support for existing gINT users will be extended to December 31, 2028.  Which products are impacted? gINT Logs gINT Professional gINT Profess...

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McCrae Landslide: Lessons from a Hillside Collapse

On January 14, 2025, a coastal community in McCrae, Victoria faced a sudden and destructive landslide that sent a multi-million-dollar home tumbling down an ancient sea cliff. The collapse seriously...

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New Study Examines Nature-Based Horizontal Levees to Reduce Flood Risk in San Francisco Bay

A recent paper by USGS and University of California, Santa Cruz researchers explores how hybrid nature-based climate adaptation measures, such as horizontal levees, can reduce the risk of overtopping...

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Landslide Tragedy at Lai Chau Hydropower Site Raises Safety Concerns in Vietnam

A devastating landslide struck the Ta Pao Ho 1A hydropower plant construction site in Lai Chau Province, northern Vietnam, on the morning of May 16, 2025, resulting in the loss of multiple lives and...

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Drilled Shafts Project on Gilbert Road Bridge

In response to significant flooding events and working under an accelerated construction schedule in record-high temperatures, Keller constructs some of the largest drilled shafts in Arizona. Diverte...

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Geotechnical Slope Design for Lithium Deposits in a Shifting Market Landscape

As the demand for lithium continues to rise, particularly from the electric vehicle and renewable energy storage sectors, hard rock lithium deposits—primarily hosted in spodumene-rich pegmatites—are...

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