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

Subsidence has long been an issue, especially for residents of Windsor Park, a formerly segregated neighborhood in North Las ...

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

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

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 nation's biggest cities are sinking, according to data from a new study.

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

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs heard from county leaders and residents during a tour of La Paz County, where water overuse is evident.

Nashville is sinking, according to a new study published in the British journal Nature Cities. Here's what to know.

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 ...

The solution to subsidence is to put water back in the ground, what scientists call managed aquifer recharge, which can reinflate the land. Farmers in California are doing this with excess water ...

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

Subsidence can also be caused by natural events ... it happens as water is withdrawn from aquifers made up of fine-grained sediments; unless the aquifer is replenished, the pore spaces formerly ...