DRONES Drone footage of huge fissure opening behind imminent landslide Rob Beschizza

landslides WATCH: Rockslide turns into massive landslide Mark Frauenfelder

Environment The dangerous, exploitative, and dirty business of "healing" crystals David Pescovitz

class war The Pinkertons' plan for climate change: a mercenary army that guards one-percenters as the seas rise Cory Doctorow

climate 30 years after cyberpunk, Japan is still the (greying, insular, shrinking, climate-wracked) future Cory Doctorow

Japan Japan's 6.7 earthquake swallows homes in landslides, kills at least 9 people Carla Sinclair

News #HurricaneLane bears down on Hawaii Xeni Jardin

Japan Japan's flood woes still have a long way to go Seamus Bellamy

NASA NASA's got a computer model for predicting landslides Seamus Bellamy

Gadgets The guy whose DRM for juice company cratered last year now sells "raw water" packed with all the microbes and amoebas you can stomach Cory Doctorow

religion Jesus appears in the clouds above Colombian city after catastrophe David Pescovitz

california California has a storm of "biblical proportions" every 200 years Mark Frauenfelder

geology Wyoming has a nice new hole in it after landslide Rob Beschizza

tv Twin Peaks and suspicion in small towns Leigh Alexander

Europe Sorrow in the Balkans Jasmina Tesanovic

Environment Inside a mile-deep open-pit copper mine after a catastrophic landslide Tim Heffernan

Science Climate change and earthquakes: It's complicated Maggie Koerth