Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could ...

US cities found to be sinking, latest satellite study confirms Houston records the fastest and most widespread urban land subsidence NYC and Chicago are sinking at rates reaching 10 millimeters per ye ...

San Francisco is one of several major cities in the United States that's sinking. Researchers from Columbia University found ...

Excessive ground subsidence could cause major infrastructure issues in the coming decades, a recent study found ...

A new study shows the land under some of the largest cities in the U.S. is sinking. "Land subsidence" is the gradual setting ...

The new study looked at the 28 most populous cities in the U.S. and 25 of them are experiencing subsidence, or land sinking, ...

The study, published in the journal Nature Cities, found that 42% of Houston's land area was sinking about one-fifth inch per ...

U.S. cities that's sinking, new research shows. See if your area is on the list — and how quickly the land is moving.

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 ...

Your home could be sinking right now, and you probably have no idea. A new study reveals that major American cities are ...

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