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

Phoenix is sinking — millimeter by millimeter — leaving our infrastructure at risk of crumbling, a new study found. Why it ...

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 reveals that all of America’s largest cities are sinking, posing growing risks to buildings, roads, and residents.

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 ...

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

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