This slow-going subsidence is measured in just a handful of millimeters per year, but rising sea levels due to climate change ...

Twenty-eight major U.S. cities are sinking due to groundwater extraction — a phenomenon that could affect 34 million people. ...

Cities from New York to Houston are sinking into the ground little by little, putting an estimated $109 billion of property at risk of flooding.

San Francisco International Airport (SFO), built on reclaimed land over former marshes, faces heightened risks from land ...

Water supply in Iran largely depends on rainfall, snowmelt, and underground aquifers, but decades of over-extraction have ...

Cities across the U.S., including inland ones such as Denver and Dallas, are settling into the earth, posing increased ...

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...

All of the 28 cities experienced some degree of land subsidence. One city had sunk ... areas are likely to continue sinking. Droughts, for example, can dry out soil in cities like Houston, leading ...

A new study finds Detroit is among 25 populous U.S. cities who experience subsidence, their land sinking. In Detroit, the subsidence is caused by the ground relaxing after the weight of the ...

A new modeling technique discussed in the International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation shows how building risks ...

SAN ANTONIO — A new study found San Antonio has the most buildings at "high" or "very high" risk of damage from the effects of land subsidence, the slow and gradual sinking of the Earth's ...

A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...