If one side is sinking and the other doesn’t, this will weaken the building and put people in danger. Less than one percent ...

In every city studied, at least 20% of the urban area is sinking – and in 25 of 28 cities, at least 65% is sinking. The ...

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

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

Managed aquifer recharge, wherein water is deliberately recharged into underground aquifers, is one way to curtail subsidence. Cities must also invest in infrastructure that can withstand or adapt to ...

Boston is sinking, according to a new study, and it's not just because of sea level rise. Here's what to know.

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

At least 20 per cent of the urban area was sinking by at least 2mm per year. These include cities like New York, Chicago, ...

A recently released technical report concludes that the sinking of land in the Central Valley due to over-pumping of groundwater, referred to as subsidence, has restricted the amount of water the ...

In years to decades, that will eventually cause water-level declines, aquifer compaction, and subsidence in areas that would otherwise achieve safe yield, Carpenter said, concerns that are shared ...

New York, Dallas, and Seattle are seeing urban areas sink by 2 to 10 millimeters per year, according to the data. Researchers ...

The group argues Attorney General Kris Mayes's lawsuit could set a dangerous precedent in litigating public nuisance laws.