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A city’s sprawl triggers ominous changes underground

Rapid growth in a city in Central Africa is causing a landslide to speed up.
Aerial view of densely packed houses stretching to the horizon.

Houses crowd together atop the northern part of the Funu landslide in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Antoine Dille, Royal Museum for Central Africa

A slow-motion landslide has been creeping for decades down the hills of Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — but it is accelerating as the city grows1.

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Nature 612, 378 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04251-w

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  1. Dille, A. et al. Nature Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01073-3 (2022).

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