A global study of major river deltas shows human-driven land subsidence is now overtaking climate change as the biggest flood ...

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

New York City is sinking. Washington, D.C., is sinking, as well. So are Los Angeles, Detroit, Dallas, and more than two-dozen of the most populous cities in the United States. Just over one year after ...

A hidden force is causing highly populated river deltas to sink. In many cases, the subsidence is happening faster than the sea is rising ...

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 ...

Shortages of water and power as well as rising air pollution in Iran are at the centre of why citizens are telling their ...

It might not feel like it, but the ground under our feet is sinking. Using satellite data, researchers were able to precisely map rates of subsidence, the gradual sinking of land, in dozens of major U ...

"Jakarta's land is sinking," said Yus Budiyono, a senior researcher at BRIN. "The northern part is turning into a 'bowl' and ...