Land subsidence, a phenomenon observed in urban and rural environments alike, poses significant risks to infrastructure and water resources. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has emerged as an invaluable ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection is continuing to monitor two mine subsidence holes that opened up on the West Side earlier this week, one of which temporarily drained Toby Creek. The ...

Twenty-eight major U.S. cities, including New York, Dallas, and Seattle, are seeing urban areas sink by 2 to 10 millimeters per year, according to new research from Virginia Tech. The major cause is ...

The simulation results well reflect the spatiotemporal characteristics of the land subsidence evolution in the experimental area. The left side of the experimental model shows stable fluctuations, and ...

Houston is sinking, and it’s doing it faster than any other major city in the country, according to a new report released in Nature Cities this week. The study was done by researchers at Virginia Tech ...

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — Work will soon be underway to fix an opening on a creek in Luzerne County. The Department of Environmental Protection is monitoring an opening on Toby Creek in Luzerne borough ...

Nearly half of China’s cities are sinking beneath rising water pressures, threatening infrastructure, housing, and long-term ...

A well on land owned by the J.G. Boswell Co. in the Tulare Lake subbasin gushes groundwater into a standpipe in this 2021 photo. In 2024, the state’s water board put the groundwater basin on probation ...