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

A recent satellite survey reveals that several major US cities are sinking. Cities like New York, Chicago, and Houston are ...

A new study reveals that uneven land subsidence could impact 29,000 buildings across the America's most populated ...

Scientists at Columbia University have found that the 28 most populous cities in the US are sinking, with 34 million people living in the affected areas. Is your hometown at risk?

Generally, according to a statement from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory — one of the study's authors, it happens as water is withdrawn from aquifers made up of fine-grained sediments ...

As sea levels continue to rise and threaten coastal areas , cities around the world are also sinking. Th | Earth And The Environment ...

This new study used satellite-based radar measurements to create high-res maps of subsidence–or sinking ... New York, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Columbus, Dallas, Forth Worth, and Houston are ...

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

Looking at all U.S. cities with populations exceeding 600,000, the new study uses recent satellite data to map out vertical land ... as water is withdrawn from aquifers made up of fine-grained ...

In a nutshell 34 million Americans live on sinking land across the 28 most populous U.S. cities, including unexpected inland areas like Denver and Indianapolis, not just coastal regions. Houston is ...

Researchers used satellite-based radar measurements to create high-resolution maps of those cities’ sinking ... Seattle, and Denver. “The widespread nature of the hazard was striking ...

A new study of the 28 most populous U.S. cities finds that all are sinking to one degree or another. The cities include not just those on the coasts ...