The Tehama County Board of Supervisors convened to address a pressing issue: land subsidence caused by depleting groundwater ...

Ground under Red Bluff, Corning and Antelope is sinking from groundwater removal. Here's what that could mean and why it's ...

Sinking land, also called subsidence, can worsen the effects of ... using data from individual monitoring wells. Water pumped from wells isn’t something that people think about often.

Nashville is sinking, according to a new study published in the British journal Nature Cities. Here's what to know.

If you live in a major American city, the ground might be sinking beneath you. Ground beneath major U.S. cities —including New York, Dallas and Seattle —is slowly but steadily sinking, with more than ...

Land subsidence is a silent but catastrophic danger hiding under much of the US. Although it never hits the news like ...

Sometimes it's worthwhile to view the world from a different angle. A recent study highlights a problem that the largest cities in the United States are facing: nearly 30 metropolises are sinking into ...

So what can be done? According to the researchers behind the study, subsidence monitoring should be part of urban planning to keep infrastructure risks from worsening. They also said strategies ...

integrating subsidence sensitivity into construction codes, limiting infrastructure loading and enhanced monitoring of critical infrastructure,” researchers wrote.