Cascading land surface hazards as a nexus in the Earth system

Brian J. Yanites; Marin K. Clark; Joshua J. Roering; A. Joshua West; Dimitrios Zekkos; Jane W. Baldwin; Corina Cerovski-Darriau; Sean F. Gallen; Daniel E. Horton; Eric Kirby; Ben A. Leshchinsky; H. Benjamin Mason; Seulgi Moon; Katherine R. Barnhart; Adam Booth; Jonathan A. Czuba; Scott McCoy; Luke McGuire; Allison Pfeiffer; Jennifer Pierce

doi:10.1126/scsience.adp9559

Cascading land surface hazards as a nexus in the Earth system

Brian J. Yanites
, Marin K. Clark
, Joshua J. Roering
, A. Joshua West
, Dimitrios Zekkos
, Jane W. Baldwin
, Corina Cerovski-Darriau
, Sean F. Gallen
, Daniel E. Horton
, Eric Kirby
, Ben A. Leshchinsky
, H. Benjamin Mason
, Seulgi Moon
, Katherine R. Barnhart
, Adam Booth
, Jonathan A. Czuba
, Scott McCoy
, Luke McGuire
, Allison Pfeiffer
, Jennifer Pierce

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Abstract

This Review synthesizes progress and outlines a new framework for understanding how land surface hazards interact and propagate as sediment cascades across earth’s surface, influenced by interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and solid earth. Recent research highlights a gap in understanding these interactions on human timescales, given rapid climatic change and urban expansion into hazard-prone zones. We review how surface processes such as coseismic landslides and post-fire debris flows form a complex sequence of events that exacerbate hazard susceptibility. Moreover, innovations in modeling, remote sensing, and critical zone science can offer new opportunities for quantifying cascading hazards. Looking forward, societal resilience can increase by transforming our understanding of cascading hazards through advances in integrating data into comprehensive models that link across earth systems.

Original language	English
Article number	eadp9559
Journal	Science
Volume	388
Issue number	6754
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/scsience.adp9559
State	Published - 26 Jun 2025

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Yanites, B. J., Clark, M. K., Roering, J. J., West, A. J., Zekkos, D., Baldwin, J. W., Cerovski-Darriau, C., Gallen, S. F., Horton, D. E., Kirby, E., Leshchinsky, B. A., Mason, H. B., Moon, S., Barnhart, K. R., Booth, A., Czuba, J. A., McCoy, S., McGuire, L., Pfeiffer, A., & Pierce, J. (2025). Cascading land surface hazards as a nexus in the Earth system. Science, 388(6754), Article eadp9559. https://doi.org/10.1126/scsience.adp9559

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