Scientists are discovering that these mystifying phenomena add up to a ticking time bomb, as long-frozen permafrost melts and releases vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. What are the ...

Same state, different highway hole. A gaping sinkhole opened up on a different New Jersey highway Friday — days after a third formed just miles away along Interstate 80 since December and threw ...

Portions of Interstate 80 in Morris County have been closed for four months due to sinkholes. Timothy Bechtel, a senior professor of geosciences at Franklin & Marshall College, said precipitation ...

The Route 80 traffic nightmare worsens as a new sinkhole opened up on Interstate 80 Westbound Wednesday evening, now shutting it down in both directions. The eastbound stretch of I-80 through ...

A new sinkhole opened up on I-80 westbound near the Route 15 overpass in Morris County while work crews were repairing an earlier sinkhole on the eastbound side of the highway. The hole opened ...

A major incident has been declared in a village in Surrey after a large sinkhole opened up. At least one garden in Godstone has been swallowed by the hole - which is believed to measure up to 62ft ...

Climate change and uncontrolled groundwater usage are exacerbating the sinkhole threat in Turkey's "breadbasket." Farmland and residential areas are at risk, and experts warn that a major food crisis ...

Authorities fear a woman in western Pennsylvania who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed by a sinkhole — a phenomenon likely caused by mine subsidence.Search and rescue ...