Saturday, 3 October 2009

Mud slides

There have been terrible mud slides in Messina in Sicily in the last few days the link below takes you to the BBC web site. We study this as part of our mass movement work at teh end fo teh lithosphere section of work.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8286538.stm

The second and third links are to articles which refer to the role of man in deforestation and developing buildings on the slopes
http://www.theage.com.au/world/20-dead-in-sicilian-mudslide-20091003-ggu0.html

http://www.euronews.net/2009/10/03/anger-grows-at-messina-mudslide-disaster/