Climate change is boosting landslide risks in southern Appalachia
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Climate change is boosting landslide risks in southern Appalachia

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 20261 min
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More extreme storms could increase the threat in mountainous areas where steep slopes already create hazards. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

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Southern Appalachia, including one that killed 11 members of a single family.

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I'm Dr. Anthony Leiserwitz and this is Climate Connections. Two years ago, the torrential rains of Hurricane Helene triggered catastrophic landslides in Southern Appalachia, including one that killed 11 members of a single family. Karen Rogers is director of the National Environmental Mapping and Application Center

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at the University of North Carolina Asheville. There has been a history of landslides in this part of North Carolina. a known phenomenon, but after Helene, it was devastating. She says the region's steep mountain slopes are prone to landslides, especially along

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paths where they've occurred in the past and in areas where the soil is already saturated. With Helene, we had had a precipitation event two days before that I think was about a seven inch rainfall in some parts of the region. It was pretty significant.

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