Mining produces minerals and creates employment and wealth, but it also generates pollution and causes land subsidence. In China, coal reserves and arable land largely overlap. Land subsidence in ...

This study titled ‘A national scale assessment of land-subsidence in China’s major cities’ estimated that of the examined urban lands, 45% are experiencing subsidence faster than 3 ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, warns that Denver is among many U.S. cities experiencing land subsidence. Although the rate of sinking may seem small annually, it can ...

Research data and expert estimates from the National Development and Reform Commission indicate that coal-mining subsidence areas in China cover ... traditional arable land, which helps to address ...