Rising seas now threaten coastal cities worldwide. A Virginia Tech report examined 32 major U.S. coastal cities using ...

Parts of Tehama County, including around Red Bluff, Corning and Antelope, are sinking, officials have discovered, prompting an emergency meeting to decide next steps to intervene. In a statement ...

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 ...

A number of cities are sinking around the Chesapeake Bay, with Hampton Roads becoming a focal point for this trend, according to a new study published by Virginia Tech.

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: ...

“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 ...

Imagine Earth's surface is like a stack of pancakes. The pancakes, or layers of soil and rocks, may appear fairly evenly stacked and fluffy. Over time though, the stack can become compressed, thinner ...

Land subsidence is a phenomenon wherein the Earth’s surface sinks downwards. It occurs mainly due to human activities, such as excessive groundwater extraction. It is a major global concern, affecting ...

Dehradun: Large stretches of India's 7,500-km coastline are sinking, often rapidly, and in many places at rates that rival or exceed global sea-level .