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A new study reveals that all of America’s largest cities are sinking, posing growing risks to buildings, roads, and residents.
A new study published in Nature Cities highlights how Indianapolis and 27 major urban cities in the US are sinking by 2 to 10 millimeters every year. The lead author and former Virginia Tech graduate ...
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 ...
The new study looked at the 28 most populous cities in the U.S. and 25 of them are experiencing subsidence, or land sinking, ...
Groundbreaking research from Columbia University reveals that land beneath America’s largest cities is sinking—mostly due to groundwater extraction—posing a hidden but growing threat to infrastructure ...
Satellite data revealed that Houston is the fastest-sinking city in the U.S., and that all of the other biggest cities are ...
A new study published on Thursday in the journal Nature Cities mapped the scale of this slow-motion crisis across the country ...
A recent study published in the journal Nature Cities reveals a concerning trend: America's largest cities are slowly sinking ...
New York, Dallas, and Seattle are seeing urban areas sink by 2 to 10 millimeters per year, according to the data. Researchers created high-resolution maps showing the sinking areas using ...
A new study reveals that uneven land subsidence could impact 29,000 buildings across the America's most populated ...
The cities include not just those on the coasts, where sea level rise is a concern, but many in the interior. And one is in ...