Florida International University geophysics professor Shimon Wdowinski said of Cartagena, "Humans can't stop land subsidence, ...

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

The assessment spanning 40 delta regions worldwide has identified the three in eastern India among 19 where land subsidence — ...

The findings point to heightening near-term flood risk for more than 236 million people, but river delta flooding is an issue ...

Many people in the San Joaquin Valley have seen the ominous photo: It depicts a person standing next to a telephone pole that bears a series of signs labeled with years. Way at the top of the pole is ...

“Disappearing cities on U.S. coasts,” a peer-reviewed study published this month in the journal Nature, shows that subsidence is especially pronounced along the Gulf Coast, where sea-level rise has ...

Prediction of global land subsidence (a) and zoomed in for North America (b), South America (c), Europe and North Africa (d), Middle East (e) and South, East and South-East Asia (f). Credit: ...

JAKARTA: Jakarta faces an escalating threat from land subsidence, which experts warn could leave parts of the city underwater ...

Imagine Earth's surface is like a stack of pancakes. The pancakes, or layers of soil and rocks, may appear fairly evenly stacked and fluffy. Over time though, the stack can become compressed, thinner ...