Fighting off rising seas without reducing humanity’s carbon emissions is like trying to drain a bathtub without turning off the tap. But increasingly, scientists are sounding the alarm on yet another ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over years. The land underneath the largest cities in the United States is sinking ...

Auckland - like most major NZ cities - sits on the coast. A combination of of sea level rise and land subsidence is putting urban areas at increased risk of flooding No coastal city is immune to the ...

“Disappearing cities on U.S. coasts,” a peer-reviewed study published this month in the journal Nature, shows that subsidence is especially pronounced along the Gulf Coast, where sea-level rise has ...

The assessment spanning 40 delta regions worldwide has identified the three in eastern India among 19 where land subsidence — ...

The land underneath the largest cities in the United States is sinking, a phenomenon threatening buildings, roads and rail lines, according to new research. But that sinking, known as subsidence, is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parts of Tehama County, including areas around Red Bluff, Corning, and Antelope, are sinking. — a condition that could cause ...

JAKARTA: Jakarta faces an escalating threat from land subsidence, which experts warn could leave parts of the city underwater ...