From the Nile to the Mississippi, sinking land is compounding sea-level rise. A new study pinpoints where deltas are dropping ...

The California Department of Water Resources plans to issue new regulations requiring local groundwater sustainability agencies to take immediate actions to prevent more land from sinking due to ...

“Disappearing cities on U.S. coasts,” a peer-reviewed study published this month in the journal Nature, shows that subsidence is especially pronounced along the Gulf Coast, where sea-level rise has ...

Researchers analyzed 40 deltas across five continents, including the Mississippi, Mekong, Nile and Ganges–Brahmaputra systems ...

The land underneath the largest cities in the United States is sinking, a phenomenon threatening buildings, roads and rail lines, according to new research. But that sinking, known as subsidence, is ...

In parts of the San Joaquin Valley, sinking land has become such a serious problem, it’s beginning to depress home prices, new research shows. Homes in large portions of California’s Central Valley ...

When over-pumping of groundwater causes land in the San Joaquin Valley to sink, it tends to take home values with it, according to new research out of the University of California, Riverside. The ...

JAKARTA: Jakarta faces an escalating threat from land subsidence, which experts warn could leave parts of the city underwater ...