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, ...

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

A new Stanford study has found parts of the San Joaquin Valley have sunk nearly 1 inch per year from 2006 to 2022, and much of the subsidence can't be reversed. Much of the subsidence occurred during ...

Water deficits leave lasting scars: sinking land, salty wells, shrinking snowpack, and fragile food and power systems, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crews install a groundwater monitoring well in Tracy. (Photo: Department of Water Resources) A new study by the California Department of Water Resources finds that stabilizing groundwater levels — ...

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 ...