Rising seas now threaten coastal cities worldwide. A Virginia Tech report examined 32 major U.S. coastal cities using ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parts of Tehama County, including areas around Red Bluff, Corning, and Antelope, are sinking. — a condition that could cause ...

A number of cities are sinking around the Chesapeake Bay, with many impacts seen in Hampton Roads, according to a new study ...

Scientists have known for years that water levels are rising faster in the Chesapeake Bay region than just about anywhere ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...