According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Cities, 28 of the most populous U.S. cities are sinking. It’s due to a phenomenon called land subsidence, exacerbated in many cases by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water is pumped to irrigate wheat fields near Hanford in 2021. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) For decades, a costly problem ...

To the editor: This article (“Central Valley homeowners are watching property values sink with the land,” Aug. 13) makes clear subsidence is not just an environmental crisis. Decades of unreliable ...

Beneath the farms and cities of the American West and Great Plains, aquifers that took thousands of years to fill are losing water faster than rain and snowmelt can replace it. The states paying the ...

According to the English pop-punk boy band Busted, by the year 3000, not much will change, but we will live underwater. According to a study from researchers at Virginia Tech University, Texas cities, ...

This story showed how a 1993 law aimed at allowing developers to pump groundwater near their projects while recharging renewable supplies into aquifers tens of miles away had caused widespread ...

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 ...

Richmond Hill, Canada - 28 October 2025 — Across many of the world’s fastest-growing cities, demand for water has outpaced what rivers and reservoirs can provide. This has increased dependence on ...

If you live in a major American city, the ground might be sinking beneath you. "One of the most impactful findings was just how widespread and significant subsidence already is," study author Leonard ...