Excessive groundwater pumping in California's Central Valley is causing homes in the area to massively devalue, according to a new study, as the land over which they are built sinks at an alarming ...

A canal that delivers vital water supplies from Northern California to Southern California is sinking in places. So are stretches of a riverbed undergoing historic restoration. On farms, well casings ...

Land subsidence in California's Central Valley has caused a 2.4% to 5.8% decrease in home values, totaling $1.87 billion. Excessive groundwater pumping, worsened by drought and climate change, is the ...

Surveys taken by NASA satellites demonstrate that land in California's Central Valley sunk between 10 and 13 inches in the second half of last year. Since then, it might have dropped even more. The ...

Sinking land is becoming one of America's most dangerous climate-related crises, with major urban centers threatened by a convergence of land subsidence and sea level rise. Recent research reveals ...