Housing cooperatives dot the hillsides of Solberg, Northside, and Bordeaux.
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"I see trees," she said, pointing down at the hillsides.
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Failed hillsides, running chocolate brown with mud in the rain.
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And the fire was running across hillsides against the wind.
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In some places, hillsides soaked by heavy rain gave way.
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Landslides linked to increased flooding continue to thunder down hillsides.
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It's not charging up and down wooded hillsides on battlefields.
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They both stood outside, anxiously watching flames in the nearby hillsides.
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Timor has pristine reefs, unspoilt hillsides and a compelling national story.
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But officials are concerned about flames creeping down hillsides toward neighborhoods.
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"There were temples flooded, homes pitching down hillsides," he tells us.
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Shops, churches and motels are all carved into the sandstone hillsides.
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Hillsides near towns were already bare, and colonial towns frequently flooded.
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Outside, he saw clouds of smoke and flames on surrounding hillsides.
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Stepped vineyards curve around the hillsides that join the five towns.
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An inferno has blackened the homes and hillsides across Northern California.
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Above, hillsides scorched last year in the Spanish region of Catalonia.
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LOS ANGELES — The flames raced across brittle hillsides like advancing armies.
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Will the energy future include hillsides covered over in parachute power generators?
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Centuries-old temples sacred to Hindus and Buddhists tumbled down the hillsides.
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No one in the family wants to shave the hillsides for that.
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The hillsides of the park resembled Mount St. Helens after the eruptions.
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There were no burning hillsides in sight, no billows of black smoke.
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"When that hit those hillsides, it just came rushing down," Eliason said.
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The barrel cactus that dot the hillsides can live to 130 years.
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We have built our homes in canyons and on hillsides that resemble chimneys.
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Firefighters installed straw tubes known as wattles to stop hillsides being washed away.
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Winds gain speed as the air rushes down hillsides and accelerates through canyons.
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Three neighborhoods that crowded on twisty streets below the hillsides were ordered evacuated.
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The verdant, misty hillsides are becoming increasingly populated with new matcha processing factories.
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"All the flames are gone, all we see are charred hillsides," said Giller.
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The village is spread across several craggy hillsides, with steep rises all around.
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Vines require clear hillsides, and truffles need thick and damp yet clean woods.
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Houses have been knocked from their foundations and rest precariously on steep hillsides.
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On the side were steamed safou, sour wild plums that grow on hillsides.
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Wispy white pines took over the hillsides, crammed tightly next to each other.
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The wildfire left charred hillsides without vegetation cover to hold the heavy rainfall.
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Dorothea Smith said boulders fell down hillsides, shattering the asphalt and blocking mountain roads.
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Overgrazing so denuded and compacted the hillsides that they couldn't absorb rainfall or snowmelt.
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Narrow ribbons of oceanfront skyscrapers are backed by wooded hillsides protected as country parks.
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The wonder of Syosset is how quickly suburban subdivisions give way to wooded hillsides.
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Juarez climbed on a rooftop, afraid the hillsides were going to come down again.
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After Maria brought down countless power poles and hillsides, it could take three days.
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Yazidi kids gathered around us as we walked toward temples tucked against scruffy hillsides.
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For centuries farmers have grown poppies on the hillsides and used them to make opium.
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Mudslides hit areas just outside the capital of Freetown, sweeping down hillsides and obliterating everything.
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Up on the hillsides, dark columns of smoke were barely visible through the gray haze.
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And most people don't like 300-foot-tall wind turbines dotting hillsides and mountain ridges.
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Above, the Easy fire on hillsides near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library this past week.
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Some of the statues are full figures, buried neck-deep in trenches, hillsides or quarries.
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Illegal logging is thinning the forests that once protected hillsides from eroding into the lake.
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Residents of the poor communities built into the capital city's unstable hillsides suffered the most.
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Yurts made of white felt are creeping steadily up the hillsides, like a glacier in reverse.
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Terrain along the border is pockmarked with black spots of scorched hillsides and charred palm trees.
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Many villagers still bury bodies, not just on hard-to-farm hillsides but on fertile fields.
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A helicopter drops water over Toro Canyon hillsides north of Santa Barbara, California, on Dec. 12.
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Eradicated from France last century, the predators are gradually creeping back to more forests and hillsides.
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Meteorite hunters naturally started searching the hillsides above Montrose for debris, but most left empty-handed.
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Aircraft are dropping retardant across ridgelines to keep fire from racing down hillsides toward residential communities.
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The scenes they capture are devastating, but familiar: Flames engulfing forests, lighting up hillsides, threatening neighborhoods.
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The bare hillsides lacked the vegetation to hold water and an ensuing mudflow killed 21 people.
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You can sometimes see traces of them, their ancient stone terraces fading back into the hillsides.
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The penthouse-level restaurant offers Californian cuisine with unusual views over the freeway and surrounding hillsides.
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As the ice that holds the soil together disappears, hillsides collapse and massive sinkholes open up.
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Green hillsides have been replaced with a brownish landscape of bare tree trunks and white debris.
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In the Andes Mountains near the village of Jardín, Colombia, the hillsides abound with coffee bushes.
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"The best terroirs for aligoté are the best terroirs, period, hillsides and limestone," Mr. Pataille said.
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It's framed by Lebanese and Syrian villages nestled into terraced hillsides, crowned by minarets and crosses.
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Hundreds of makeshift homes have already collapsed after landslides occurred on the muddy hillsides around the camps.
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For one thing, flames can strip hillsides of plants that would otherwise anchor the dirt in place.
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Previously, the Thomas fire left hillsides without trees or vegetation, leaving 123 people dead and many homeless.
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And her tough approach has more admirers on the affluent hillsides than in the slums between them.
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The spindly skeletons of trees still stand atop hillsides leached of color in Carry-le-Rouet, France.
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The Egyptians, thousands of years ago, watered some pretty barren hillsides with a six mile bucket brigade.
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Some in Baba say it is because the residents spend their lives scaling the valley's steep hillsides.
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The Albrechts also reportedly had "fortress-like" homes along the hillsides near the Ruhr Valley in Essen.
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As the violence subsided, the authorities constructed a stunning aerial tramway network, connecting Alemão's densely populated hillsides.
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The disaster was the direct result of recent wildfires that stripped hillsides and made the earth unstable.
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Less than two months ago, they saw their houses buried in mud or surrounded by scorched hillsides.
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This was part of the motivation to trudge up steep hillsides day after day to tend vines.
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In 2010, University of Arizona undergraduate Lujendra Ojha noticed dark streaks running down Martian hillsides in satellite images.
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The property boasts pine forests, olive groves, terraced hillsides, working vineyards, a private lake and even a moat.
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The property was once home to a US Army cavalry remount station; horse graves still top the hillsides.
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Hillsides that have been scorched by a wildfire are at risk for mudslides when it rains, experts say.
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The valleys, the hillsides, the horizon all bear the same overexposed quality, the burned-out yellow of haystacks.
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Macro shots of colored bubbles are juxtaposed with shots of serene British hillsides, the ancient chalk South Downs.
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Buildings were leveled, once lush and verdant hillsides were reduced to barren stumps and roads were washed away.
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Gazing out those windows to green hillsides, red cliffs, blue sky, I felt the shimmer of the sublime.
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I was driving into Orange County and passed by the flames as they began to burn the hillsides.
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The Getty fire and others near Los Angeles broke out on "vegetation-dominated hillsides," The Washington Post reported.
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Several people returned to the rubble-strewn hillsides to search for their pets, but other animals remained unclaimed.
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As a boy, he said, he watched military planes bomb nearby hillsides as they hunted for communist guerrillas.
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Utilities have responded with solar and wind energy systems that now scar deserts, valleys and hillsides across the state.
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The glare undulates for miles across the hillsides, touching cozy homes and glitzy high-rises and bullet-perforated storefronts.
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Fires are ravaging the Los Angeles hillsides, and people are doing what they can to ensure their own safety.
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On the radial highways leading out of Tehran, you'll pass small just-add-water towns stuck into the hillsides.
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Families scour for crops spared by the rain and scavenge the hillsides for plantains and beans not yet turned.
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Weeks after wildfires tore through the region, heavy rains sent mud rolling down the barren hillsides in the county.
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Lake Texcoco, where the Aztecs built their island capital, Tenochtitlán, once captured the rainwater hurtling down the surrounding hillsides.
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Officials have also restricted new buildings from going up on certain hillsides in order to keep the air moving.
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It also shared photos showing shells fired by howitzers and soldiers perched on ridges, surveying hillsides with their rifles.
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A new landscape emerged; instead of forests and grassy hillsides, there were boulders, barren slopes, and expanses of scree.
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In the multiagency crews working diligently to clear remaining fire hazards, and to seed and shore up eroding hillsides.
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Outside Yaoundé, golden painted homes sit atop lush hillsides while beaten-down shacks line the roads at the bottom.
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Surrounded by thick forests and hillsides, wild animal attacks were not unheard of in this region, including wolf attacks.
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Scorched hillsides and damaged power lines are seen along the Pacific Coast Highway near Leo Carrillo State Beach in Malibu.
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"The whole idea is to have Haiti itself not create problems," he says, gesturing towards squatters' homes on hillsides nearby.
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Uruapan is a major center for the processing and export of avocados grown in orchards that spread across Michoacan's hillsides.
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Super steep hillsides and lack of vehicular access are making things tough for firefighters, three of whom have been injured.
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He has given Shropshire a rich poetic heritage, but he also helped fix our folk aesthetic on unnaturally bare hillsides.
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Hordes of smashed billionaires wander the Scottish hillsides, teeing off at random before fumbling for another drink in the darkness.
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An orgy of illegal quarrying and "rat-hole" mining is disfiguring the landscape and eroding the hillsides and stream-beds.
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The bodacious bovines that lend their lovin' to these wheels graze freely on the rolling hillsides of this idyllic land.
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The plan was to build 16 miles of subway tunnels encircling the city using obsolete canals, unpopulated hillsides, and ravines.
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"A unique blend of the finest Espadin agave, hand-selected from the hillsides of a small village in Oaxaca, Mexico."
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The hillsides in the distance are planted with families of agave plants, ranging from babies to 20 year old grandpas.
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Others had decamped to settlements along the Turkish border, where blue and white tents pockmark rocky hillsides and olive groves.
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He climbs the hillsides of his coffee farm with the sure-footedness of a ram, easily negotiating the rocky terrain.
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The views from the kitchen and dining area look out from the elevated side of the property to forested hillsides.
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Wind turbines dot the hillsides and solar panels can be seen on the roofs of even the most rural farmhouses.
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The lucky ones are crammed into tent camps, others sleeping in the open on the surrounding hillsides and olive groves.
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It overlooks the chaparral-covered hillsides of Parma Park; beyond is the nearly 1.8-million-acre Los Padres National Forest.
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Raging rivers of mud and debris rushed down hillsides in Santa Barbara County, wiping out or burying homes down below.
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Legend has it that the broccoli-shaped tree was the only one to survive a 2007 fire in the hillsides.
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The landscape the Wayuu inhabit, on a peninsula jutting into the Caribbean, includes patches of desert and lush, green hillsides.
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WA KALU PU, Myanmar — Dragging giant tree trunks up and down the steep hillsides of sweltering jungles is a tough job.
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Pocahontas County has a distinctly southern feel: locals speak with a warm, lilting drawl; Civil War trenches still dot the hillsides.
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Dodging thickets of poison oak, we stomped up hillsides surrounding the town to get close up views of the ISP's towers.
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Flames are creeping down hillsides toward homes in the city of Lake Elsinore, where crews are prepared to provide structure protection.
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AFTER defeating Zuhak, an evil king with serpents sprouting from his shoulders, the Kurds celebrated by lighting the hillsides with fire.
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In pounding heat and stifling humidity, traumatized and malnourished refugees are crammed into bamboo and canvas huts packed across muddy hillsides.
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There were no trees or vegetation left on the steep, goat-eaten hillsides to stop the mudslides caused by the downpour.
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Spectators (dressed in variations on a toga and sandals) sat on the gently sloping hillsides — several thousand men could be accommodated.
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Zombie roam the hillsides, and we rarely stop to figure out their story, where they came from, and where they're going.
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The fires burned acres of protective brush on hillsides, leaving little to no vegetation to prevent mudslides and debris flow. 4.
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There are, of course, the scenes of jumbled debris, fallen walls, soggy mattresses and hillsides stripped bare of once-thick vegetation.
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It's a huge red structure that sits at the base of one of the many steep, snowy hillsides that surround Zermatt.
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The weather conditions on Thursday are downright dire, with strong, damaging winds rushing through mountain passes and down hillsides toward the coast.
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The fires have scorched hillsides, destroyed dozens of properties, and shrouded highways in smoke in the state's worst fire season on record.
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The grass is green, the hillsides are coated in yellow and orange and blue flowers, and the reservoirs are full again, hallelujah.
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Abandoned mine pits dot the bare, treeless hillsides in Samarinda, the capital of East Kalimantan province on Indonesia's part of Borneo island.
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Students said it has been surreal to drive past burned-out houses and empty hillsides on their way to school every day.
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An hour's drive north of the city, blue and white tents pockmark the rocky hillsides and olive groves of the border area.
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This April, wildflowers have fiercely reclaimed the hillsides, the roadsides of the Skyway connecting the neighboring towns, and their surviving garden beds.
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On craggy hillsides and rocky plains, they are setting up makeshift shacks and gers, or yurts, the traditional homes of Mongolian nomads.
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Some 40,000 people are waiting on several small islands, settling into muddy hillsides wherever they can find room to pitch a tent.
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But now, up ahead, a fog so thick that it nearly blinded drivers on the freeway enveloped the hillsides near their destination.
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The mudslides began after heavy rains early Tuesday created rivers of mud and debris that ran down hillsides in Santa Barbara County.
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Fire burns the hillsides as the County Fire continues along Highway 129 near Lake Berryessa in Yolo County, California, Tuesday, July 3, 2018.
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Like referring to a river that flowed above you while you slept, or depicting a thick blanket of white lingering on distant hillsides.
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Immense areas of the state were razed by wind-whipped flames, leaving hillsides bare of vegetation that could stabilize soil and prevent mudslides.
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Unemployment is high, and the poor end up living in low-lying coastal areas, perched on hillsides, in wooden houses roofed with tin.
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As land has grown scarcer with urban development, people have looked to increasingly precarious lands, including floodplains and hillsides, to build their homes.
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At least 17 people were killed in southern California by mudslides that swept down hillsides stripped of bushes and trees by recent wildfires.
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By nightfall, the fire had burned 4,000 acres (6 square miles or 16 square kilometers) of chaparral-covered hillsides and destroyed one building.
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Apple trees cascade mountainsides, massive cauliflower blooms soak up the sun on terraced hillsides, and clusters of cannabis plants weave through the landscape.
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In the past, ponds captured stormwater coursing down the hillsides, said Shannon Gore, a U.S.-born environmental consultant and Cane Garden Bay resident.
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Areas below hillsides burned in recent wildfires are considered at risk, and those are the neighborhoods where officials are advising people to evacuate.
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In other places, people buried their dead on muddy hillsides churned up by the storm, marking their resting place with simple wooden crosses.
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Other land is protected as part of the Special Hillsides Preservation District, zoning created in 1987 to protect the area's upland Serpentine Ridge.
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Stan Ziegler of Ventura County Fire explained the areas of greatest risk for devastating mudflow are neighborhoods below freshly burned, denuded, steep hillsides.
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The rains raise the risk of mudslides in areas where the wildfire stripped hillsides of vegetation that would typically hold down the earth.
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Floods and landslides have become more frequent and destructive, since small farmers stopped tending the hillsides and unscrupulous real estate developers replaced them.
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While the scenes of flames screaming up hillsides, and smoke trailing hundreds of miles out over the Pacific are dramatic, they're not unprecedented.
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The usually blue green seas in many places are now a muddy brown from the earth swept down hillsides and into the water.
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The rain poured down on hillsides charred by recent wildfires, which burned vegetation that otherwise could make the terrain more resistant to mudslides.
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Informal encampments, planted in agricultural fields and on windy hillsides, lined the road from the border to the small town of Maarat Misrin.
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Informal encampments, planted in agricultural fields and on windy hillsides, lined the road from the border to the small town of Maarat Misrin.
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The absence of vegetation and roots in burned-out hillsides and canyons makes them more susceptible to mudslides and even landslides, officials said.
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The deaths were in southern Santa Barbara County, where a devastating wildfire recently left charred hillsides without vegetation cover to hold the rainfall.
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Solar cooking is perfect for Haiti, because fuel can be hard to find, and many of our hillsides are completely stripped of trees.
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But lately, the Golden State has elicited visions of a different kind -- houses buried in mud, scorched hillsides and flu-stricken hospital patients.
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He could see a glow behind the ridgeline above him, and as the winds kicked up, the hillsides erupted into quilts of fire.
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All the missing people are from the Atsuma area, where dozens of landslides wrecked homes and other structures and left starkly barren hillsides.
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That process has dramatically loosened the soil, which the rains turn into heavy mud that slips down the hillsides, burying anything in its path.
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KHUBBAYZA, Israel (Reuters) - Loudspeakers blared nationalist Arabic music across hillsides in northern Israel on Thursday as children ran across a field waving Palestinian flags.
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Emergency crews continue to search for survivors after mud and debris roared through Southern California hillsides stripped of vegetation by ferocious wildfires last month.
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But there's an inescapable sense that while the lives lived on these airy hillsides and mock-Tudor streets are limited, they're decent and admirable.
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Cizre had been under curfew and closed to the outside world for almost three months, with tanks on nearby hillsides firing down on it.
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High in the Andes in present-day Peru the Incas and their predecessors built cisterns and irrigation canals, and carved terraces into the hillsides.
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Across the West, bark beetles, which thrive on warmer winters, are infesting more and more pine trees, turning once-green hillsides into fire hazards.
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The rugged hillsides, stripped bare of 98% of their forest cover thanks to deforestation, let flood waters rampage into large areas of the country.
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The couple's next target — another ranch, this one tucked into the verdant hillsides of central Veracruz — was abandoned when they arrived in late September.
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A bank of cold, whipping rains followed, causing mudslides on the hillsides that had been stripped of greenery, closing down parts of the highway.
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She was describing the deep green of the hillsides in northwestern Myanmar, where she grew up in a mountain village of about 100 people.
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So the exuberant embrace of this year's "super bloom," an exceptional show of wildflowers coloring normally barren hillsides and desert valleys, makes perfect sense.
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Mr. Sinclair, the co-host of the PBS series "Taste the Islands," described how chefs labored over fire pits centuries ago on isolated hillsides.
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The rain poured down on hillsides charred by recent wildfires that had burned vegetation that otherwise could make the terrain more resistant to mudslides.
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Apples are grown in the arid valleys and brown hillsides of central Washington, a few hours east of Seattle, and watered by irrigation projects.
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It's a rather beautiful, novel pine tree that grows on a few rocky hillsides in California and on a couple of islands off Baja.
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All evacuation orders were lifted Saturday in Los Angeles after the Saddleridge Fire moved away from neighborhoods and into hillsides, and as wind conditions improved.
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Metro21: Smart Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon University has used dashboard mounted smartphones to collect and assess images of hillsides to track and anticipate landslides.
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The air was thick with smoke and dust as they hauled heavy gear up and down unstable hillsides, grabbing gulps of water whenever they could.
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Some farmers complain that they have been resettled on sheer hillsides ill-suited to farming and, to add insult to injury, chronically short of water.
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Jeremy Haffner began his day a little differently than most beer brewers—by dodging poison oak to forage ingredients in the hillsides of Ojai, California.
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But local residents fear the mine would destroy historic Rosia Montana, surrounding hillsides, and pollute the local environment with cyanide used in the mining process.
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Along with the massive tree-cutting on stream banks and hillsides, this would exacerbate flooding in a region already experiencing much stronger storms and floods.
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An awe-inspiring aerial tramway connects the densely populated hillsides, their maze of passageways a testament to resilience and ingenuity in the face of hardship.
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Shelter Island Heights, for instance, the neighborhood near the North Ferry terminal, has frilly Victorians sunning themselves on hillsides overlooking the harbor and yacht club.
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The fertile hillsides of the Israeli-occupied Golan are scattered with villages inhabited by 22,000 Druze, an Arab minority who practice an offshoot of Islam.
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Those who believe recurring wildfires make it folly to develop California's wooded hillsides said so Monday, pointing to Fountaingrove as a disaster waiting to happen.
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They are often burning hot through the night (when they used to cool), racing faster up hillsides and torching neighborhoods that were once relatively safe.
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Unesco noted "the combined work of nature and human activity" in the region, including sheep farming on deforested hillsides, stone villages and grand country estates.
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Rain began falling on Saturday and continued through Sunday morning, testing dams, pulling down hillsides, destroying roads and bridges, and driving rivers over their banks.
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In 2002, I remember navigating past the checkpoints of rival Kurdish militias in northern Iraq, gazing at hillsides sprouting those frightening little landmine warning signs.
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POCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - The screech of incoming fire followed by an explosion resounds across forested hillsides near the border between North and South Korea.
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LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood Reservoir is nestled in a basin surrounded, usually, by dusty brown hillsides, broken up by the occasional dry wisp of shrubbery.
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Areas particularly at risk were those that suffered deadly wildfires in the last two years, leaving scorched hillsides devoid of vegetation and prone to collapse.
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And the Play, a collective in the Kansai region, sailed together on barges or built tree houses on hillsides to rediscover freedoms beyond social boundaries.
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Vineyards, which mainly occupy the valley floor, appear to have been largely unscathed, as the fires in Napa County burned mainly in the hillsides, McGaughy said.
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The so-called Ferguson Fire that broke out Friday scorched nearly 7 square miles of dry brush along steep, remote hillsides on the park's western edge.
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In Colombia and Central America, coffee is typically grown on hillsides where mechanization is more difficult, and hand-picking cherries has kept production costs relatively high.
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Sodden hillsides gave way, unleashing a torrent of mud, water, uprooted trees and boulders onto the valley below and killing victims aged from 3 to 89.
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The inspiration for this style of gameplay was Mr Miyamoto's own childhood memories from the countryside of Sonobe, Japan: combing rice fields, scaling hillsides, fishing lakes.
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Landslides are common in mountainous Colombia, especially during rainy season and in areas where precarious informal housing and narrow roadways are constructed on deforested Andean hillsides.
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Vineyards, which mainly occupy the valley floor, appear to have been largely unscathed as the fires in Napa County burned mainly in the hillsides, McGaughy said.
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The families' account of the attacks and subsequent efforts to recover the surviving children include reports of shooting from the hillsides that continued well after dusk.
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The old roads, some of which were first cleared by now-extinct eastern woods buffalo, snake around hillsides, along streambeds and across century-old covered bridges.
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A smoky Southern California forest fire is raging in mostly unoccupied land but firefighting crews are concerned the flames could race down hillsides toward foothill communities.
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Images of the damage from Earl, broadcast on Mexican television, showed massive mudslides burying entire hillsides, trees felled and buildings creaking under collapsed walls and roofs.
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As Soave Classicos, they all come from the original source of the Soave appellation, a series of volcanic hillsides in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy.
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Just over 40 miles northeast of the state capital (also called Campeche), it looks, at first glance, like little more than a few half-excavated hillsides.
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COLUMBIA COUNTY, N.Y., a two-hour drive north from Manhattan, is a bucolic vision of rural America — lush rolling farmland, cow-dotted hillsides, stalwart red barns.
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Across the Philippine province of Palawan, the impact is reflected in the rows of idled outriggers and the clouds of smoke drifting across freshly denuded hillsides.
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When someone in his house fell ill, he picked bitter herbs and tender hearts of bamboo that grew on the hillsides to steep into soothing broths.
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When passing it on a boat you have to look hard to notice its green and tan low-rise buildings, which disappear into the surrounding hillsides.
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Watching her soar and hunt over hillsides near my home, I identified so closely with the qualities I saw in her that I forgot my grief.
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Not especially in keeping with what I believed the Mario World to be, in the wider sense: squishy, cute things, all big smiles and bouncy hillsides.
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Mudslides triggered by intense rainfall in eastern Mexico killed around 40 people last month as saturated hillsides collapsed onto homes in the wake of Tropical Storm Earl.
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" She described families "chipping away at rocks to make some space on steep hillsides to set up their makeshift shelters, often made from trees they cut themselves.
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But as trees are cut to make room for construction, rain is draining off the hillsides rather than seeping through their roots into the soil and streams.
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Plus, without plants to slow the rain before it reaches the dirt, the soil can't absorb as much water — leaving more to race down hillsides as runoff.
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Above the processing center, the hillsides are thickly covered in coffee plants, some of the green leaves bearing light spots as the result of a fungus attack.
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In Southern California, a smoky forest fire raged Wednesday in mostly unoccupied land — but firefighting crews were concerned the flames could race down hillsides toward foothill communities.
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Artillery, air strikes, and tank attacks had long since denuded the ridge of vegetation, but the surrounding hillsides and valleys were a jungle of trees and vines.
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In eastern Mexico, mudslides triggered by intense rainfall in the wake of Tropical Storm Earl killed 40 people over the weekend as saturated hillsides collapsed onto homes.
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They originated in Europe in the Middle Ages—probably a good thousand years ago—when people would pour water over heated stones in pits dug into hillsides.
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Benham was built a century ago as a coal mining camp by a subsidiary of International Harvester, which mined the nearby hillsides, extracting coal to make steel.
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A pre-teenage boy, walking the rural hillsides with his father, is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother, who has unfinished business with the living.
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I knew I was approaching my target when the cow pastures made way to rows upon rows of coffee—whole hillsides carpeted beyond the line of sight.
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I gasp and gawk at the season's colors, dragging the children on chilly hikes in the woods just to catch a better glimpse of the painted hillsides.
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The devastation, sudden and violent, struck early Tuesday after a winter storm drenched and destabilized hillsides stripped bare last month by the largest wildfire in California history.
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Hundreds of prospectors flooded into the hillsides of what is today the western edge of the state, many of them coming from the gold mines of California.
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Hillsides eroded by the Thomas Fire came loose, and devastating mudslides roared through Montecito, killing more than 20 people and damaging the homes of several Patagonia employees.
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Avocado orchards are particularly vulnerable: They line hillsides, which were in the path of the fire, and their dropped leaves collect on the ground, providing perfect tinder.
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"By putting all these bells and whistles in, we are able to wet down our hillsides, close intake valves and keep smoke and debris out," Somerville said.
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Mudslides triggered by intense rainfall in eastern Mexico killed around 40 people last month as saturated hillsides collapsed on to homes in the wake of Tropical Storm Earl.
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Television footage showed out-of-control flames and opaque clouds of smoke engulfing villages, scorching savannah and farm fields dotted with wavering palm trees and ripping across hillsides.
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More than a dozen people have died after mudslides triggered by strong storms hurled rocks and debris down fire-ravaged hillsides and into Southern California neighborhoods on Tuesday.
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They fought and made love in the dense jungle that clung to the hillsides, along the serpentine streets, on rice paddies, near ancestral temples, and sacred Banyan trees.
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The newly identified geoglyphs are on hillsides and would have been visible to villages below — unlike the Nazca lines, which are best seen from high in the sky.
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Coffee plantations, usually between 1,968 and 3,280 feet above sea level, where ideal cool conditions exist for the crop, have shrunk upwards towards the top of the hillsides.
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Medellin's much copied cable car transport system ferries residents up and down hillsides, connecting slum dwellers with the rest of the city in a quick and affordable way.
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Over the past few weeks, record levels of rainfall in Southern California have caused a so-called "super bloom" of wildflowers, carpeting hillsides with patches of colorful buds.
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It is full of personality and topographies, a stream of asphalt tumbling down canyons and staggered across hillsides, parting tall meadow grasses and shaded by tall solo trees.
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Long wooden bridges connect parts of the camps divided by water; steps have been carefully carved into the hillsides to ease access to the shelters perched on them.
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Walls of mud and debris cascaded down hillsides stripped of trees and shrubs by last month's wildfires, including the Thomas Fire, the largest blaze in the state's history.
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Fetid water pooled along the only entrance and exit from the town, and just about everything on the wind-strafed hillsides had been leveled — trees, houses, cellphone towers.
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The hillsides here in Wyoming now light up like a birthday cake from the flaring at oil and gas production sites, which blaze through the day and night.
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California is deep into its dry season, with many hillsides covered by combustible brush, and many areas, including San Francisco, have experienced record high temperatures in recent days.
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The most striking thing was how well ordered the whitewashed villages were and how every possible piece of arable land — even steep hillsides — had been plowed and planted.
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After the forests of larch, cedar, fir and pine were leveled for timber, the hillsides could no longer hold the ground during times of heavy rain and snowmelt.
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Protective brush on hillsides, which would usually be able to soak up floodwater, was consumed by fire, leaving little to no vegetation to prevent mudslides and debris flow.
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Crozes-Hermitage may not have the potential of the granite hillsides of St.-Joseph, another northern Rhône region, but the wines can be delicious in their own right.
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An unintended consequence has been an increase in drivers using mapping software that sends them down the narrow streets that traverse the neighborhood's steep hillsides, said resident Katherine Murphy.
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Mud and debris cascaded down hillsides that had been stripped of trees and shrubs last month by wildfires, including the Thomas Fire, the largest blaze in the state's history.
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In 1978, Escobar purchased a parcel of land in the quiet hillsides of Puerto Triunfo and built a sprawling Spanish colonial mansion that would become his family's permanent home.
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Haiti has a pervasive problem with deforestation as residents chop down trees for firewood and to construct shelters with, and this leaves hillsides vulnerable to mudslides during heavy rainstorms.
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Many of its scenes are shot on hillsides and in forests in natural light, while its interior scenes, in shadowy caves and huts, are lit to resemble Caravaggio paintings.
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Just seven and a half hours of lakes and mountains, farmhouses dotting the hillsides, snow-dusted mountains, and the occasional interruption of the train conductor announcing the next stop.
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The huge fire that swept through the hillsides along the 405-freeway last December, destroying homes in Bel Air, began with a cooking stove fire at a homeless encampment.
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Then, when the floods came, cholera was carried down by the water itself, which swept up fecal matter dumped on the hillsides, contaminating the river and other drinking supplies.
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Haiti is prone to flash floods and mudslides because most of its hillsides have been stripped bare by people cutting down trees to make charcoal to sell for fuel.
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But forecasters say it takes only one storm with a lot of rain in a short amount of time to mush up fire-stricken hillsides and start a slide.
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Standing in the back of an open-air truck bed, we wind through paved and dirt roads, passing donkeys and wild agave plants that jut out of rocky hillsides.
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The town, taking its name from the Spanish word for butterfly, was founded during the California gold rush in the 19th century and is surrounded by pine-covered hillsides.
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Those returning must come to terms with an island that is still crippled, where power outages are frequent, businesses remain shuttered and hillsides are pocked with blue roof tarps.
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Grass has grown back on the hillsides, but Ms. Parker said it would take five to seven years for the native plants to grow back and stabilize the earth.
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Built on steep hillsides in an area covered in pines, many of the city's wooden structures are susceptible to fire, especially in the poorer neighborhoods higher in the hills.
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This swath of Massachusetts has seen the rise of a formidable food movement — where animals graze on hillsides, and where little shoots grow up to be farmers' market peas.
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Seventeen people were killed when mud, trees, rocks and other debris -- triggered by heavy rains -- gushed down hillsides, destroying homes in coastal communities already ravaged by last year's wildfires.
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At least 17 people were killed when rivers of mud and debris rushed down wildfire-charred hillsides earlier this week in Santa Barbra County, demolishing homes and blocking roads.
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The landscape is so lush and green (over 70 percent of Bhutan is still covered in forest) that the hillsides explode with dense treetops resembling ripe heads of broccoli.
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He owns John Madonna Construction Co., and has since January waged a valiant fight to keep the road clear of the dirt and debris constantly falling from the hillsides above.
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It spent the morning hovering over the mountainous regions, drenching them in feet of rain until the waterlogged soil began to slide down the hillsides, crushing houses and burying roads.
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In Los Angeles, all evacuation orders were lifted Saturday after the Saddleridge Fire -- the largest of the fires currently burning in Southern California -- moved away from neighborhoods and into hillsides.
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After all, it is named for the lead miners of the 1830s who, like their furry namesakes, burrowed into the hillsides to live and work during the harsh Midwestern winters.
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Roughly 23 hours before torrential rain hit the area's fire-ravaged hillsides, sending a swift river of mud, boulders, and debris into the neighborhoods below on the morning of Jan.
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And on several crisp winter mornings, I found the telltale signs of wild pigs: big holes dug around olive trees and along muddy trenches where rains drained off our hillsides.
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But what if the vines were situated on rocky hillsides at higher altitudes, where the yields stay low naturally, rather than in the fertile flatlands where the yields are generous?
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It is a crisis of conventional weapons too, since North Korea has tens of thousands of short-range rockets, entrenched in hillsides, within easy reach of South Korea's capital, Seoul.
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This is where a new city has risen from the dusty hillsides where victims of the quake are buried – by some estimates now one of the largest cities in Haiti.
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Around Apútzio de Juarez, a town of 1,100 people surrounded by fields of guava and corn, scars on the hillsides and patches of young avocado trees signal the crop's advance.
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Crews on Friday are allowing some hillsides to burn, to reduce fuel and make it harder for flames to jump roadways later in the day when the winds pick up.
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"Wildfires are the price Angelenos pay to live in a city that straddles mountains, builds housing into hillsides, and threads communities through brush-filled canyons," The Atlantic wrote this month.
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When Fernando García and Daniel Gómez Jiménez-Landi found vineyards of old-vine garnacha that were languishing on granite hillsides in the Sierra de Gredos outside Madrid, they envisioned beauty.
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I followed mine with one of the daily sommelier-led wine tastings (15,000 pesos), which felt extra dreamy as the sun stole into the bay and Valparaíso's hillsides were illuminated.
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The brightly painted, wood-trimmed houses are heated cheaply by generators fueled by methane gas from cow manure, and wind turbines nearly 500 feet tall provide electricity from the hillsides.
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It can involve long drives on spine-rattling, rocky tracks, clambering up hillsides, bushwhacking through jungle, and occasional encounters with elephants, bears and snakes, as well as leeches and ticks.
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The white steel and glass structure sat on top of scorched hillsides surrounding the hilltop presidential library near Simi Valley, about 36 miles (58 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
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"Fire surrounded parts of the vineyard and burned through the canyons, hillsides along the river bed which runs through a portion of the property," Caudill said in an emailed statement.
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Hundreds of people in Lake Elsinore, 56 miles east of Los Angeles, got mandatory evacuation orders on fears hillsides scorched by the 2018 Holy Fire could turn into debris flows.
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I'm in a taxi on my way to taste the world's best whisky, but the view outside of the car window is not of misty Scottish hillsides or Bourbon County.
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Rain is in the forecast over parts of Colorado, promising some relief for firefighters but threatening to trigger flash floods on erosion-prone hillsides where trees and bushes have burned up.
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She also said the volcanic soil and relatively shallow slopes found in the fire zone mean the ground is unlikely to become saturated enough for hillsides to give way to landslides.
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Most are young men who have stolen rifles and gone to hide in the forested hillsides, where they broadcast their defiance on social media and occasionally die in firefights with soldiers.
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On Thursday, National Weather Services issued flash flood warnings for the Paradise area, warning that "life-threatening flooding of creeks, roads and hillsides is likely" and urging residents to remain alert.
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Although more typically used to flatten hillsides into road cuts, blasters can also be brought in to step the entire hillside back if the engineers decide it's a hopelessly unstable mess.
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It's not just steep hillsides but muddy marshes, icy conditions and man-made obstacles from highways to dams, that can block scientists from all the places they'd like to study wildlife.
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Lawns, parks and hillsides that had been left to go brown during the drought (state-wide emergency measures have required cities to cut water usage by 25%) have turned green again.
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"When I look at these images, I see what seems to be seriously denuded hillsides, which I assume are from crops and fallows being washed away," she told the space agency.
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The numbers — over a dozen separate fires across the state and hundreds of thousands of people displaced — are shocking, and the tales of flames and smoke engulfing neighborhood hillsides are disturbing.
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Sleepy villages, hillsides blanketed in grape vines, pasta dusted with shaved truffles, and wine that tastes of violets: just a few reasons to visit this gastronomic paradise in the Piedmont region.
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"About a half an inch per hour can start to produce issues, mudslides " Praying for rain -- just not too much Planting anything on the hillsides now won't stave off the danger.
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They all came from the Walla Walla district, where some of the most interesting terroir research has occurred, focusing on steep, stony hillsides that over the years may prove especially distinctive.
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He grooms the hillsides to make sure that silt and other materials don't clog the four salmon streams through which coho, king and steelhead swim from the Eel River to spawn.
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Dried-up corn stalks, which look almost unrecognizable if you're used to the engineered, Midwestern variety, dart around at odd angles between rocks and patches of dirt, clinging to steep hillsides.
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Flat stretches along the coastline, emerald green with sugar cane and large-leafed banana plants, ascend into velvety, verdant hillsides thick with vine-wrapped trees before descending again to the coast.
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The wall belted the country, stretching "15 feet high, entire and intact, from coast to coast, running straight up hillsides, down gullies and over cold rivers," punctuated by watchtowers and forts.
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There's a lot of potential here to explore regions on the Moon, Mars, and other interplanetary targets that conventional rovers can't reach, such as small crannies, steep hillsides, or cliff faces.
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Among the group waiting for news, was Assegaf Umar, who was among a team of paragliders who had traveled to Palu to soar above its picturesque bay and steep green hillsides.
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The fires, which took place during a drought year and in the hillsides above the East San Francisco Bay city, killed 25 people and destroyed 2,843 homes and more than 430 apartments.
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"The first image I had of him was 15 years ago," Mr Stamm said earlier that morning at a café in the valley, the hollow ring of cowbells resounding from the hillsides.
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Each day, Foy, Kobylinski and African researcher Massamba Sylla trekked miles from their camp to the villages of Ibel and Ndebou, nestled at the base of hillsides in this West African nation.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The massive brooding stone figures peering from Easter Island's hillsides are emblematic of the enigmatic people who once thrived on the dot of land in the middle of the Pacific.
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The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.
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Aerial footage showed dozens of landslides exposing barren hillsides near the town of Atsuma in southern Hokkaido, with mounds of red earth and toppled trees piled at the edge of green fields.
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As he steered through narrow country lanes, past haystacks and swelling hillsides dotted with sheep, he denied any ambition to become leader of the Tory Party, or for that matter, prime minister.
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But even if you live in a particularly wind-swept part of the world, surrounding structures or geographical features — like buildings, trees or hillsides — can easily rob the wind of its energy.
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Shipping containers and tents are crammed into every corner, while families sleep in the open on the surrounding hillsides in tents they must buy or make themselves, plagued by bedbugs and rats.
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Heavy rains lashed the hillsides of Santa Barbara County on Tuesday, sending one boy hurtling hundreds of yards in a torrent of mud before he was rescued from under a freeway overpass.
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Despite the land transfer, the politics of the poor towns surrounding the airport zone, especially Chimalhuacán, a city of low-slung concrete houses straddling the hillsides above the lake bed, are unpredictable.
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Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)The red brick slum trips down the hillsides of eastern Caracas, and stumbles to a halt at a highway that separates the poor from the rest of Venezuela's capital.
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By the second half of the 20th century, Catalonians began abandoning the steepest, hardest-to-farm hillsides in favor of the valleys, where machines and fertilizers made farming easier and more productive.
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To reach Doti, a district in the Far-Western Province of Nepal, you have to fly an hour from the capital, Kathmandu, then drive for seven hours up lush and winding hillsides.
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The threat of dangerous mudslides will grow on Thursday as a storm rolls through coastal California, where thousands have fled from homes near hillsides that were stripped of vegetation by massive wildfires.
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And the corner room had tall windows along two walls, with views of the rooftop pool at the neighboring Thermae Bath Spa, the spires of the Bath Abbey and surrounding verdant hillsides.
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The centerpiece of the area is Mada'in Saleh, or Al Hijr, a collection of more than 268 towering tombs carved into hillsides that take on the glow of burnished gold at sunset.
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Rainfall earlier this week did not trigger any large debris flows, but Roth said the danger of a mudslide will remain far into the future for hillsides that flames have stripped of vegetation.
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Ordinarily in commercials, footballs are earnestly thrown through tires on farms, attractive wrinkletons tenderly hold hands in bathtubs on hillsides because, evidently, that sort of thing plays well with the fifty-plus crowd.
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Beyond that, thousands of residents have abandoned homes and industrial properties destroyed in the storms, many of which now cling precariously to the brown hillsides, their contents spilling out like an exploded piñata.
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Others noted deaths would have been avoidable if, for example, the government had tackled rampant illegal construction on hillsides, or issued evacuation warnings during the three days of rains before the disaster struck.
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Officials said they had been preparing for impending storms to wreak havoc and cause more devastation in communities tucked into charred canyons and hillsides that now lack the ability to absorb heavy rain.
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Families gather in ancestral halls bearing the names of their forefathers, who are buried in traditional horseshoe-shaped graves nearby, nestled at the spots on the hillsides with the most auspicious feng shui.
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Heavy rains can send sediment crashing down the hillsides, but the channels leading to the lo'i — and the lo'i itself — slow it down, so the pollutants can settle and exit the water column.
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Police in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties ordered evacuations Tuesday from areas damaged by last year's wildfires because of the risk heavy rain would trigger mud and debris flows on charred hillsides.
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This is readily apparent at Yosemite in the drive from the valley floor, where the green hillsides are dotted — in some cases in large numbers — with the brown of dead pines and firs.
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As the ocean waves crashed and the breeze carried in the smell of salt, the only signs of visible damage from the storm were downed trees and the brown hillsides in the distance.
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The book includes some unintentionally comic images of Koks's team—including a younger and considerably more kempt-looking Ziska—foraging on Faroese hillsides for wild thyme or lovage while dressed in kitchen whites.
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She's an American married to a Dutchman, but her enthusiasm for the island and its cuisine is as legitimate as if she had been created from the very soil of the Ibizan hillsides.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mudslides triggered by intense rainfall in eastern Mexico killed 40 people at the weekend as saturated hillsides collapsed onto modest homes in the wake of now-dissipated Tropical Storm Earl.
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Wary locals have been reporting potential dump sites — 76 so far, state officials say — in backyards and hillsides in this area just north of Grand Rapids, where the suburbs fade into the countryside.
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MANBIJ, Syria — The front line between rival American-backed and Turkish-backed militias in northern Syria, just eight miles north of Manbij, snakes over mostly barren hillsides and through newly planted olive orchards.
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Up in the hillsides, a no-go zone for civilians, multimillion-dollar mansions are flooded with mud, and cars, tossed about like playthings, are now just hunks of twisted metal, jammed against trees.
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But in the downtown area, new high-rise residential buildings have sprung up on hillsides overlooking the harbor and a stunning new waterfront conference center, APEC Haus, where the world leaders will meet.
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Even if you've never been to Scotland, you can probably still picture the color palette: rolling green hillsides, the weathered slate of Edinburgh Castle, a glacial blue sky and mirroring Loch Ness lake.
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HONOLULU – Hawaii&aposs Kilauea volcano has captivated people around the world by shooting lava high into the sky and sending rivers of molten rock pouring down hillsides into the ocean over the past month.
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Authorities should prevent developments and illegal settlements in risky areas like hillsides, and they should assist communities in such places to relocate, said Hang Thi Thanh Pham, senior resilience officer at FAO in Bangkok.
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When you scale muddy hillsides, wear a furkini in the snow and (how could we forget?) balance a champagne glass on your butt, nothing is off limits (according to Kim Kardashian West that is).
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Alex Arriola and hundreds of other firefighters charged up flaming hillsides in the middle of the night Monday to battle a brush fire that exploded on the tinder-dry edge of West Los Angeles.
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Vineyards usually sit happily on country hillsides, way out of the city smog, but you'll find a few urban wineries around the world, from Clos Montmartre in Paris to D'Augustine Vineyard in Los Angeles.
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"If we don't come here to develop, this place would just be bare mountains," he added, as he watched workers carrying 30-kg bunches of bananas up steep hillsides to a rudimentary packing station.
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Some hillsides were allowed to burn under the watchful eyes of firefighters as a way to reduce fuel and make it harder for flames to jump roadways into communities if winds pick up again.
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Heavy rains early Tuesday caused rivers of mud and debris to run down from hillsides in Santa Barbara County, demolishing homes in the affluent seaside community of Montecito weeks after wildfires in the area.
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On a tour of vulnerable areas, where a light breeze carried the smoky odor of previous years' fires, Chief Sapeta pointed to the overgrown grass covering the hillsides after a winter of generous rains.
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In an area here called the Trinity Pines, three mountains connected by a network of uneven dirt roads, the older Hmong have regained a lifestyle familiar to them, farming small plots on steep hillsides.
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Investigators in the crash that killed the former N.B.A. star haven't ruled anything out, but the hillsides around the flight's destination near Los Angeles were enveloped in a nearly blinding fog at the time.
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The sustained black market is also a concern for environmentalists, who say marijuana grown illegally in public forests cuts into hillsides, siphons water from creeks and is treated with pesticides that foul the water.
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The video captures the interconnectedness of landscape and community; scored hillsides cut into lingering shots of a couple at the kitchen sink, water running, the contamination from mining runoff a part of their lived reality.
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In an unregulated sprawl of shacks built on hillsides near the northern edge of the capital, some poor families did what they could to reinforce their tin-and-tarp home and hoped for the best.
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Standing in the alcove of China Beach's public sand is a similarly surreal feeling to touring the neighborhood, like you're on a stage with the homes tucked away in the hillsides staring down at you.
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Remnants of a Romanesque chapel, where Jolie and Pitt married, can be found on the property, as well as pine forests, olive groves, sprawling hillsides, a private lake, numerous fountains, a vineyard and a moat.
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Not having the precise instruments that recorded 40-metre-high waves in 2011, villagers in centuries past have placed stone markers along the hillsides roundabout to show how far the wall of water swept inland.
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Cliffs and seawalls have been reinforced, beaches bulldozed into defensive berms, drainage gullies cleared of rocks and fallen trees, and concrete "K-rails" installed to channel flash floods on hillsides laid bare by recent wildfires.
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CANE GARDEN BAY, British Virgin Islands (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sun loungers dot the white sand of Cane Garden Bay, a beach resort tucked between steep hillsides and the azure sea in the British Virgin Islands.
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Along winding roads that climb steep hillsides blanketed with neat rows of nebbiolo vines, there's always an ancient castle up ahead, or a world-famous wine estate, or a storybook hamlet with swoon-worthy views.
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What was once a collection of green canyons, hillsides and farms was reduced to grey devastation by fast-moving avalanches of super-heated muck that roared into the tightly knit villages on the mountain's flanks.
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Emergency officials said chances of finding more survivors in the ravaged landscape of hardened muck, boulders and other debris had waned considerably since heavy rains unleashed torrents of mud down hillsides before dawn last Tuesday.
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I studied photographs in library books of homes built into hillsides and cliffs, then combined their best features in my sketches: nearly invisible skylights tucked into grassy knolls and furniture carved into stone interior walls.
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Eyebrows, a Nubian goat, Lily Belle, a Nigerian Dwarf goat, and Swiss Cheese, an Alpine goat, have four stomachs each and eat 25 percent of their body weight each day on the park's steep hillsides.
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In that melancholy landscape of long-ago childhood summers spent chasing roosters and exploring the hillsides, Mr. Alvarado realized he had a duty to his family, if not to the island and its diaspora, too.
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Mr. McLean of Cal Fire said firefighters have cut paths into steep hillsides to help arrest the fire and are now concerned with the stability of paths and dangers to those working in the area.
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The strong storm also brought fears of flash floods and mudslides to Ventura County, where the Thomas fire — the largest wildfire in California history — destroyed homes and left blackened hillsides vulnerable to the heavy rains.
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The dry periods prompt desperate people to deforest hillsides for wood for cooking or to sell, but they are now followed by increasingly violent rains, which then easily wash away the topsoil barren of trees.
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Drought, more than heat, threatens the grapes, he said, adding that instead of steady rainfall, precipitation now comes in downpours that run off the hillsides and do little to slake the thirst of the vines.
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In an interview in June, Oswald Hanciles, a spokesman for President Ernest Bai Koroma, warned that homes constructed precariously on hillsides in defiance of government regulations posed a significant risk to residents and the environment.
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By disarming the viewer with unassuming representations of lighthouses or fish, flowers or hillsides, the paintings lure the eye ever closer, as intermingled colors and fine gradations of light both constitute and complicate those objects.
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But amid the pastel palaces cascading down the wooded hillsides and the healing waters below, politics past and present made for a gritty tone on screens in the festival's 52nd incarnation, which finished on July 8th.
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Firefighters installed straw tubes known as wattles to stop hillsides being washed away and were hoping to have the fire fully contained by the weekend, said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokeswoman Erica Bain.
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On the hillsides near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, threatened by the Easy fire, the winds made it a challenge even to walk — slowly, hunched over, both hands holding your hat.
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A drive through the evacuation zone in Santa Clarita showed block after block of well-appointed homes, an idyllic tableau of California suburbia, mostly untouched by fire, even as the surrounding hillsides were charred and bruised.
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Under a sky illuminated by shellfire, in ravines and on hillsides denuded of natural or man-made cover, huddled in what was left of their trenches, the French and Germans lived Verdun in the same way.
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While a few fires per season are fairly normal for the region, the drought has left hillsides even drier with more dead vegetation than normal, which makes experts incredibly nervous about what will happen this summer.
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"The placement of the timbers on mirroring hillsides ruminatively activates the valley with contour and shadow during the day and with transitioning, rhythmic illumination throughout the course of the night, mimicking tidal shifts," its creators write.
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The fact that he still has believers in Utah in 2016 is due in part to the preservation of a mine, carved into the hillsides outside of Salem, Utah, an hour south of Salt Lake City.
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Standing water, which allows the insects to breed, is a fact of life here, as are the pools of trash cloaking many city streets in the dense neighborhoods that carve through the hillsides of the capital.
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What was once a collection of green canyons, hillsides and farms was reduced to grey devastation by fast-moving avalanches of super-heated muck that roared into the tightly knit villages on the mountain&aposs flanks.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Natural and human factors made Sierra Leone's capital vulnerable to a landslide that killed more than 400 people this week: heavy rain, deforested land and communities forced by overcrowding to live on steep hillsides.
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At the Yerba Buena Elementary School, which is surrounded by hillsides blackened by the Woolsey Fire, softball player Hannah August donned new catcher's gear and shared a laugh with members of the U.S. National Softball team.
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The cruel irony is that the region is suffering from several years of drought, and officials say they need the rain to regrow the plants and trees that can keep the hillsides together and flood-proof.
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In the city of Ventura, about 30 miles (48 km) to the south, Larry Dennis, 60, sought refuge at a shelter on Sunday after the blaze inundated the region with smoke and turned nearby hillsides red.
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On Friday, it crossed the Santa Monica Mountains toward Malibu, where flames driven by wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour (80 kph) raced down hillsides and through canyons toward multi-million dollar homes.
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The stunning coastline of Ninh Thuan Province is a stark contrast to the barren, hard-to-reach hillsides and dilapidated wooden homes inland, where most people live, enduring the daily struggles that come with extreme poverty.
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The Rohingya refugees have taken over hillsides, chopped down countless trees to build their shelters and put such a stress on the economy of Bangladeshi border villages that prices have shot up threefold, angering longstanding residents.
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It's a day's trek, by minibus from the little town of Bontoc, then by foot up and down steep hillsides and across fragile rope bridges, then teetering along thin strips of earth that divide the paddies.
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This year's bloom is more widespread — purple and yellow sprays along freeway medians, golden poppies covering hillsides that glow orange from miles away, and desert valleys filled with dozens of species, some not seen for decades.
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The different-size plots — angled to dovetail harmoniously, positioned to carefully caress the contours of the hillsides and bordered by dry stone walls — prevent this unique and improbable place to live from sliding into the sea.
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A very pleasant lunch In Tigoni, a beautiful high-altitude tea-growing area, the hillsides are carpeted with verdant tea fields picked to a uniform height — a giant green couch begging for someone to stretch out.
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In the city of Ventura, about 30 miles (48 km) to the south, Larry Dennis, 60, sought refuge at a shelter on Sunday after the blaze inundated the region with smoke and turned nearby hillsides red.
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The usually cynical reporters in coach applauded the pilot after an approach that meant banking to the right, buzzing homes on the hillsides, then swiftly straightening the Airbus 242A to make an expert landing at Paro airport.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Mudslides triggered by the intense rainfall in eastern Mexico have left 18 people dead over the weekend as saturated hillsides collapsed onto homes in the wake of now-dissipated Tropical Storm Earl.
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Tin-roofed shacks cram entire hillsides in south Bogota, home to more than a third of the capital's residents, many of them displaced families who fled their rural homes to escape fighting during Colombia's half-century war.
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Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said the bulk of the fire at the city's edge had moved away from homes and into rugged hillsides and canyons where firefighters were making steady progress slowing its advance.
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TANSEN, Nepal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In south-central Nepal's Palpa district, which spans from the country's hillsides to its southern lowlands, farmers can grow a huge range of crops, from coffee to paddy rice, lychees to wheat.
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Over the last two decades, for instance, an organization called Codep has helped Haitian communities in the Cormier watershed, in the south of the country, create forests on the hillsides, where fruit is harvested for local markets.
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Auckland can hardly be considered frenzied, but for an extra dose of tranquillity hop the ferry to Waiheke Island, where culture meets nature over 35 square miles of scalloped beaches, vineyard-planted hillsides and welcoming art galleries.
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Mexico is dealing with the aftermath of a huge quake that struck on Thursday night, and President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday that Katia could be especially dangerous in hillsides rocked by the magnitude 8.1 tremor.
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Livestock nibbled the valley grasses down to playable height, rabbit's warrens were patted down and puttable, and where the sheep laid into hillsides and wore the grass down to its sandy bottom, golf's first bunkers were born.
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Sodden hillsides gave way, unleashing a torrent of mud, water, uprooted trees and boulders onto the valley below and causing what the police described as "traumatic injuries" to the victims, who ranged in age from 3 to 89.
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The next morning, on our way over to the landing strip and staging ground, we passed through huge strands of dried-up fennel, covering whole hillsides, and a grove of eucalyptus — both stubborn invaders like the Argentine ants.
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Dozens of giant "Moai" statues dominate the hillsides surrounding the island's Rano Raraku wetland, but they are facing the threat of what locals describe as a kind of leprosy, white spots that are appearing on their iconic facades.
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"Zerozerozero" is three shows in one: an Italian mafia saga with rocky Calabrian hillsides and generational omertà; a Mexican narco thriller with lavish cartel violence; and, more improbably, an indie-movie-style American family drama and character study.
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For journalists, the zone offers a chance to peer into the world's most hermetic country, while being surrounded by the artifacts of a hot war-turned-cold: an observation post, ringed by razor wire, that overlooks barren hillsides.
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Residents would walk the four hours over the mountains with a crop of potatoes in cloths on their backs, following footpaths that wind up sheer hillsides and through valleys decorated with lakes that reflect the mountains like mirrors.
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All evacuation orders in Los Angeles were lifted Saturday evening, the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement, after the largest blaze in Southern California, the Saddleridge Fire, "moved away from neighborhoods and into hillsides," per CNN.
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Whether the pilot made the right decision — to continue flying on despite low fog in the hillsides of Calabasas, where the aircraft crashed — will likely be at the center of the investigation into the cause of the crash.
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On my recent trip to the Rwandan capital of Kigali, a city of verdant hillsides and 1.1 million people, I met Daniel Ndayishimiye, who, in 2016, established Fashion Hub Kigali, a nongovernmental organization that is also supporting designers.
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Ms. Gallmann, 74, has set aside the expanse for protecting wildlife like elephants, leopards, lions and buffaloes, as well as the rare species of trees and plants that thrive in the gorges and hillsides of her sculpted property.
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But one of the Sarahs moved to Connecticut and the other Sarah's rich dad sent her to the mediocre girls' school in Pittsfield, where all the withered aristocracy waiting out death on our colorful hillsides sent their children.
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The British Virgin Islands (BVI) were plunged into darkness for six months when Irma, packing winds of 185 miles per hour (295 kph), uprooted electricity poles and left 13 miles (645 km) of cable littering streets and hillsides.
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Drone video captured from above the area by the Lebanon Eco Movement, an association of environmental organizations, reveals the scale of the destruction: Bald, crumbling mountains are a stark contrast to the green hillsides that will be razed next.
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As remnants of Subtropical Storm Alberto spread into the Great Lakes region, people were keeping a weary watch on dams and hillsides Thursday as rains from the storms have triggered floods and mudslides in the Appalachians of the Southeast.
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Hong Kong had won praise for a post-war program that put hundreds of thousands into public housing and cleared hillsides of precarious, fire-prone squatter villages, but demand has since outstripped supply, inspiring ideas for short-term solutions.
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On the trek up to the compound, past small sheep and goat farms and through pastoral scenery on a beautiful spring day, journalists and diplomats were shown craters that the allegedly wayward missiles had created on the surrounding hillsides.
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But recently, this swath of Massachusetts has given rise to a formidable food movement — a place where the milk remains cream on top, where the animals graze on hillsides, where little shoots grow up to be farmers' market peas.
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"We're on this island, we can't get off it," Aleida Tolentino, 56, said on Saturday, as she gazed out over the brown hillsides of uprooted trees and branches stripped of every leaf, with rain rolling in from the east.
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The result is what you saw on the nightly news: dams falling apart, bridges cracking, highways under water, houses sliding down hillsides, gusts topping 190 miles an hour, and people trying to find their way through San Jose, Calif.
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You can walk down from the ruins of the chateau to a mangrove swamp and continue into the nearly empty hillsides on a hiking path that offers tremendous views of the vast landscape and choppy waters of the Atlantic.
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Residents of Lake Elsinore, 56 miles (90 km) east of Los Angeles got mandatory evacuation orders over risks nearby hillsides scorched by fire in 2018 could turn into rivers of mud and debris that could carry away cars and homes.
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Los Angeles Fire Department officials determined, for example, that the massive Skirball blaze that burned homes in Bel-Air and torched the hillsides along the 405 freeway in December 2017 was sparked by a cooking fire at a homeless encampment nearby.
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After an extensive investigation, California fire officials announced Thursday that private electrical equipment located next to a home tucked in the woodsy hillsides of the state's wine country sparked one of the deadliest and most catastrophic blazes in state history.
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Wines of The Times Way up in the foothills of the Alps, about as far north as you can go in the Lombardy region of Italy without hitting Switzerland, a series of terraced vineyards hug the hillsides overlooking the river Adda.
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But unlike the Nazca lines, most of which can only be seen by flying above them, many of the so-called Palpa Lines were carved into hillsides and can be seen from below, Peru's culture ministry said in a statement.
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The main concern is to channel the torrents off the hillsides as swiftly as possible, fearing they may unsettle the slopes and trigger mudslides and avalanches of boulders, uprooted trees and other debris—as has happened on numerous occasions before.
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Seventeen people are confirmed dead and another 17 people are missing after a wall of mud roared down hillsides in the scenic area between the Pacific Ocean and the Los Padres National Forest, according to authorities in Santa Barbara County.
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Humacao, Puerto RicoA social worker, Lisel Vargas, recently visited Don Gregorio at his storm-damaged home in the steep hillsides of Humacao, a city on Puerto Rico's eastern coast near where Category 4 Hurricane Maria first made landfall last September.
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"Bo did a great job with law and order in the city," said Tan Heping, one of the city's dwindling number of iconic bangbang, or "stick men", who carry loads on bamboo poles up and down the city's steep hillsides.
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Those jobs are right under the miners' feet: restoring the natural environment of a region devastated by a century and a half of coal mining that has left streams polluted, mountains leveled and industrial waste choking once-scenic hillsides and hollows.
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Once out on the open water, they synchronized, and their chant became a kind of meditation, a hum as powerful as a drum beat, both soothing in its repetition and exciting in its rumble as it bounced off the hillsides.
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CreditCreditSusan Wright for The New York Times Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there stood emerald peaks woven with crystalline rivers, hillsides garlanded with stone villages, and canyons joined by lofty bridges arcing toward the heavens.
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The island's physical scars — hillsides robbed of their lush greenery, disemboweled homes stacked on the roadside — are a constant reminder of all that has been lost, and the unrecognizable transformation the island endured in just a few hours of Irma's fury.
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Amid the forested hillsides sit 22018 structures of historical significance that have been transported from other parts of Japan, including an asymmetric teahouse beside a tinkling stream, and a 220th-century, three-story pagoda from Kyoto that occupies a scenic hilltop.
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Civil rights and environment groups opposing the mine argued it would destroy ancient Roman mining shafts in the Rosia Montana village, its surrounding hillsides and pose an environmental risk from the cyanide used to process ore, a normal industry practice.
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Looming beyond every narrow village street, it seems, are steep green hillsides that are veined with stone walls, rushing brooks and ancient, winding footpaths, and dotted with sheep who take no notice of the racing shadows of the fast-changing clouds.
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The investigation: All possible causes for the helicopter crash on Sunday that killed Bryant and eight others are still being considered, but the hillsides around the flight's destination near Los Angeles were enveloped in a nearly blinding fog at the time.
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The increasing use of mechanization and other new technologies in those countries have led to productivity leaps that far outstrip rivals like Colombia, where many farms are set on steep Andean hillsides that make mechanization difficult and keep costs high.
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The increasing use of mechanization and other new technologies in Brazil and Vietnam have led to productivity leaps that far outstrip rivals like Colombia, where many farms are set on steep Andean hillsides that make mechanization difficult and keep costs high.
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The increasing use of mechanization and other new technologies in those countries have led to productivity leaps that far outstrip rivals like Colombia, where many farms are set on steep Andean hillsides that make mechanization difficult and keep costs high.
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Amid the harrowing images of smoldering hillsides and homes turned to ash, one of the most remarkable facts about these fires is that they are burning large swaths in separate places at the same time, as you can see in this map.
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He has rolled boulders onto roads, stripped trees bare, strewn debris across hillsides, torn old telephone poles from the ground, tossed ornamental palm trees into the sea, and demolished a few uninhabited old buildings, their carcasses stinking and wet under a gray sky.
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Welcome to Big Sur, where coastal residents' willingness to live on nature's terms has been severely tested: Historic drought usurped by two unrelenting wet winters has eroded hillsides and sent cascades of mud and rock onto highways along Big Sur's 90 miles.
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Unlike the La Conchita tragedy, the stage was set for Montecito's slides by a massive wildfire last month — the largest on record in California — that stripped hillsides bare of any vegetation to hold soils in place following a day of drenching showers.
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Autumn in the region leaves the steppe parched, but a little higher, in protected mountain valleys, wild apricot trees turn spectacular orange and red, while wild apples and other trees turn yellow and brown, painting the hillsides with a warm, bright palette.
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She also said due to the volcanic soil and relatively shallow slopes found in the fire zone, the ground is unlikely to become saturated enough for hillsides to give way to landslides that can occur in newly burned areas after heavy rains.
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Hundreds of emergency workers, many of whom had weeks earlier battled the massive fire that denuded hillsides and made the dirt so unstable, searched on Tuesday for survivors with the help of Coast Guard helicopters and heavy equipment to clear blocked roads.
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She's drawn to weeds because they're at once ubiquitous and invisible, such as the wild mustard that cloaks the city's hillsides in spring, staining them an acid yellow — taken for granted as a backdrop but, in a vase, unrecognizable and thrillingly new.
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Tourists from the United States, Europe and Japan come to wonder at Islay's coastal beauty, take pictures of hillsides filled with sheep and hairy Highland cattle that look as if they've had vigorous blow dries, and soak up the pricey local spirits.
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The golden flowers can be seen dotting hillsides along highways and are "an unmatched symbol of the Golden State, perhaps viewed as a floral representation of the 'fields of gold' sought during the Gold Rush," according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Video and photographs on social media showed flame-covered hillsides along busy roadways as commuters slowly made their way to work or home, rows of houses reduced to ash and firefighters spraying water on walls of fire as they tried to save houses.
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Image 2 of 2 HIROSHIMA, Japan – Rescuers combed through mud-covered hillsides and near riverbanks Tuesday to look for dozens of people still missing after days of heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides in southwestern Japan, where the death toll has risen to 122.
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The 36-year-old actor, who first collaborated with Barbour when he led the charge as the Grand Marshal in N.Y.C.'s New York Tartan Day parade in February, is no stranger to manly plaid attire and verdant British hillsides, thanks to his Outlander experience.
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This became apparent on the afternoon I spent driving with Robinson along the causeway, a twisting roadway that hugs the U-shaped glens of the coast, the Irish Sea on one side and villages and vertiginous green hillsides, strewn with sheep, on the other.
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Severe drought in 2018 followed by another exceptionally dry summer this year left trees across Germany vulnerable to bark beetles that lay their eggs just beneath the bark, which has killed trees and left large swaths of normally lush, green hillsides a sickly brown.
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Officials worked for days, even going door-to-door, to warn residents that the hillsides were ripe for dangerous mudflows after the fires destroyed the vegetation that could hold the soil in place, said Dennis Bozanich, deputy county executive officer for Santa Barbara County.
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The aerial roots of Ficus elastica, the rubber fig, are trained into bridges over the streams by which the water flows down to the plains Meanwhile, in the Khasi Hills, pepper gardens and betel-leaf plots on the hillsides will go untended as the rain pours down.
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Verdant hillsides that had provided estates with a sense of seclusion were largely denuded by last month's historic wildfires, making them vulnerable to the massive mud and debris slides that sent boulders crashing into homes, turned highways into raging rivers and shredded cars into tangles of metal.
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Accessibility also means that Cold Spring attracts an increasing number of visitors who compete for parking spots, scuff hillsides and turn the purchase of a chicken Caesar wrap at a Main Street cafe into an ordeal half as long as the ride up the Taconic State Parkway.
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CreditCreditLexey Swall for The New York Times ARLINGTON, Va. — The advancing front of tourists in matching T-shirts, squinting toward the gently rolling hillsides covered with gravestones, made its way into America's most famous cemetery by walking right past its grand, ceremonial entrance with barely a glance.
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During a drive north on Sunday on the Pacific Coast Highway, which is closed in both directions to nonemergency personnel, the shimmering waters of the Pacific could be seen on one side, and on the other, steep cliffs and rocky hillsides with patches of black, charred earth.
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Wine School If you ever doubt the value that humanity has placed on the fermented juice of the grape, take a look at the labor-intensive, death-defying challenges that people have accepted to tend vines on some of the most perilous hillsides in the world.
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"These will not be 50- to 203-year-old wooden buildings with shake roofs within close proximity of ... pine trees found on hillsides and canyons," LA County supervisor Kathryn Barger, who represents the area, said after the vote, adding the development goes "above and beyond" the state's environmental regulations.
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Most Paraguayans seem to believe the theory behind plata yvygüy, viewing it as feasible that in the midst of a savage war Asunción's elite buried small fortunes, and state treasures were sent out of the city on train wagons and then hidden along tracks or in nearby hillsides.
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People have fallen miles from planes and lived, due to tumbling down snowy hillsides, the way extreme skier Devin Stratton did when he accidentally skied off a 150-foot Utah mountain cliff in January 2017 and escaped unharmed, his fall arrested by branches and cushioned by deep snow.
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When he arrived at the age of 15 in early 1969, as one of millions of Chinese youth sent to the countryside by Mao, the village's 360 residents lived in caves dug into the dry, ocher-colored hillsides, and eked a meager existence out of the dusty soil.
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Certainly, hers was a story that must have been muttered about on hillsides, in the dark, by warriors, for Hall emerged from a middle-class American background to become one of the greatest figures of World War II: "the Madonna of the Mountains," a hero who helped liberate France.
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Yakutumba fighters, who mostly oppose Kabila, advanced to hillsides about five km (3 miles) outside the lakeside city by mid-afternoon on Wednesday and army reinforcements deployed to try to push them back, according to Lubungula Dem's M'Sato, a member of a peace-building advocacy group in Uvira.
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"Ghosts of the Tsunami" is the story of how those directly in charge that day failed to heed the warnings left on the hillsides by those earlier generations, and of how the families of the dead students coped when confronted with parents' greatest nightmare: being unable to protect their children.
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"He tried to reach in his back pocket, I don't know if he had a gun with him, but my mother felt that and she screamed out," Ms. Yusufiy said at an interview at the home where she lives with her fiancé, here in the steep green hillsides above Boulder.
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A major part of the campaign, which is called Mevagissey S.O.S. — for Save Our Surgery — is a three and a half minute video posted on Facebook showing the colorful stone houses of the village perched on the hillsides under a clear blue sky, with boats peppered about the small harbor.
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As a child, Mr. Sigaud, whose family grows grapes and makes wine here in the Cahors region in southwestern France, had heard the old men talk about how the best wines, the ones that had won medals at international expositions, historically came from the steep limestone slopes of the hillsides.
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The wildfires, including several blazes last year, have burned acres of protective brush on hillsides, leaving little to no vegetation to prevent mudslides and debris flow, The first major storm of this rainy season was expected to drench Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and Los Angeles overnight Monday through Tuesday.
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As patients are transported by chunky VR goggles into a three-dimensional world of Japanese zen gardens or snowy hillsides, they become more tolerant of minor but painful procedures such as having a cut stitched, a burn treated, a urinary catheter inserted or a dislocated shoulder pushed back into place.
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When they finally crossed, in the eastern part of the island, the Allies mounted a spirited, but ultimately fruitless defense, including street fighting -- two famous lion statues outside the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporations headquarters still bear the pockmarked bullet scars of the fighting -- and battles on the island's forested hillsides.
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Because hidden in these villages, hillsides and pine forests you can find a state — Israel — trying to navigate a battlefield with a rival state's army (Syria), a rival regional superpower (Iran), a global superpower (Russia), super-empowered mercenaries and maniacs (Hezbollah and ISIS) and local tribes and sects (Druse and Christians).
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With the chill barely out of his bones, Cohen took in the horseshoe-shaped harbor and the people drinking cold glasses of retsina and eating grilled fish in the cafés by the water; he looked up at the pines and the cypress trees and the whitewashed houses that crept up the hillsides.
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AMBAZONIA, Cameroon — The road to Cameroon's breakaway region of Ambazonia is a long and arduous trek along a dirt trail from the mist-covered highlands on the border with Nigeria, winding down through steep rainforest hillsides, fast-flowing rivers, and across a bridge woven from jungle creepers that dangles over a rocky torrent.
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