WILKES-BARRE — Crews from UGI Utilities were rushing to turn off natural gas as a second subsidence occurred on Horton Street Monday morning. The subsidence in front of 179 Horton St. and near ...

Year after year, a scary statistic haunts the Hampton Roads area — “the highest rate of sea level rise on the east coast.” What’s more worrying is the less discussed issue: We are sinking, what’s ...

The subsidence risk in geothermal projects needs to be effectively managed by careful review of site conditions and legal and permitting precedents. Production of geothermal fluids can lead to ...

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

During an earthquake, soil can weaken through subsidence and liquefaction. These processes can cause buildings to collapse as the soil becomes unable to support their weight. Researchers have now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have evaluated how sinking land could worsen the threat from sea level rise in coastal areas throughout the country. This map shows Wilmington, with high-tide flooding areas from 2020 in ...

PITTSBURGH — Homeowners in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln Place neighborhood met with members of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Wednesday evening. The topic was mine subsidence. Channel ...