The vital cornerstone of California’s water system and fresh, safe food, the San Joaquin Valley, is at the center of a crisis: land subsidence. The consequences are severe: sinking land, cracked ...
The ground beneath us is sinking, a phenomenon called land subsidence, revealed by advanced satellite mapping. This slow, ...
“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: ...
On January 21, 2026, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) published its Best Management Practices of the Sustainable Management ...
When over-pumping of groundwater causes land in the San Joaquin Valley to sink, it tends to take home values with it, according to new research out of the University of California, Riverside. The ...
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 ...
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