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

“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 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 ...

On January 21, 2026, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) published its Best Management Practices of the Sustainable Management ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people in the San Joaquin Valley have seen the ominous photo: It depicts a person standing next to a telephone pole that bears a series of signs labeled with years. Way at the top of the pole is ...

The California Department of Water Resources plans to issue new regulations requiring local groundwater sustainability agencies to take immediate actions to prevent more land from sinking due to ...

Prediction of global land subsidence (a) and zoomed in for North America (b), South America (c), Europe and North Africa (d), Middle East (e) and South, East and South-East Asia (f). Credit: ...