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A dog-like, bio-inspired robot called Spirit is still learning to walk, but could one day be deployed on the moon to explore steep, potentially hazardous areas with a team of robot companions.
The record rainfall in California has soaked its steep hillsides, causing hundreds of landslides and heightening the threat to communities. With climate change predicted to produce more severe weather, officials are scrambling to put in basins, nets and improve predictions of where landslides might occur to keep homes and people safe.
Tackling the threat of landslides in soaked California. They are no quick fixes. And they don't come cheap.
California has seen hundreds of landslides this month. But the factors that make the state so vulnerable to landslides go well beyond the atmospheric rivers that have inundated the state.
Atmospheric river storms have caused hundreds of landslides across California this month.