A new study by researchers at Virginia Tech has determined how fast the land is sinking in the Chesapeake Bay Area. Among ...

The ground beneath us is sinking, a phenomenon called land subsidence, revealed by advanced satellite mapping. This slow, ...

Land subsidence is a phenomenon wherein the Earth’s surface sinks downwards. It occurs mainly due to human activities, such as excessive groundwater extraction. It is a major global concern, affecting ...

Parts of Tehama County, including around Red Bluff, Corning and Antelope, are sinking, officials have discovered, prompting an emergency meeting to decide next steps to intervene. In a statement ...

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 ...

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: ...

Based on using peridynamics to describe the physical processes of regional land subsidence, deep learning methods, including neural networks and Gaussian Process Regression, are employed to construct ...

Shortages of water and power as well as rising air pollution in Iran are at the centre of why citizens are telling their government they want change.

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 ...

GSI will investigate land subsidence in Andhra Pradesh's Godavari delta, linked to stagnant irrigation drains and oil ...