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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Cities sit unmoving on the landscape — a sprawling collection of roads, sidewalks, and buildings designed to last for generations. But across the United States, urban areas are silently shifting: The ...

The country’s 28 most populous metros are slowly sinking, according to a study published in the journal Nature Cities. The land beneath these cities is subsiding, mostly because people are using too ...

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 ...

A new study shows land in California’s San Joaquin Valley has been sinking at record-breaking rates over the last two decades as groundwater extraction has outpaced natural recharge. The researchers ...

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 ...

Groundwater is a critical resource in Southern California, where long-term drought and climate change place increasing pressure on local aquifers. Some regions, like the Hollywood Basin (a small ...

A Dallas millionaire is seeking permission to drill into the massive Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer to explore how much water is available. His enterprise, if fully realized, could drain 15.9 billion gallons ...