At least 65 percent of urban areas in 25 major cities are sinking, with some local spots dropping by about two inches a year, new research has shown.

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that large sections of New York City, especially Queens and ...

American drug smuggler John Michael Boyum was one of the first to surf Siargao’s Cloud 9 in the late 1980s. His story helped ...

A new study published on Thursday in the journal Nature Cities mapped the scale of this slow-motion crisis across the country ...

But when PFAS turns up in sludge used as fertilizer, it can become a problem. PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, ...

Paul Pierce walked 20 miles to work, after losing a bet that the Boston Celtics would beat the New York Knicks in the NBA ...

Lunchtime at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building has gotten a little wild. Dance troupe Monica Bill Barnes & Company, whose motto is “bringing dance where it doesn’t belong,” ...

When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in ...

Newsweek has created a map that highlights a sobering reality for parts of the United States: in dozens of U.S. counties, ...

Organizers are instituting a few new rules and changes for the 2025 edition of Somerville's Porchfest, after last year's ...

While land sinking less than an inch per year might not seem like much on paper, small shifts in land can have big effects.

The Republican-led House passed a bill Thursday that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and direct federal agencies to update their documents and maps to incorporate the new ...