Sinking Land News Today

Tall, heavy buildings on a thin, man-made island can be a recipe for more flooding.

Sea level rise could hit major US cities like New Orleans and San Francisco harder than expected by mid-century because coastal land is sinking

From New York to Norfolk, America's eastern shoreline is silently slipping away. Here's what's happening—and why we should worry.

It's not just land that's sinking, so are "infrastructure hubs," said lead author Leonard Ohenhen, a graduate student at Virginia Tech’s Earth Observation and Innovation Lab.

Groundwater, which resides in aquifers below the surface of the Earth, is a critical natural resource. It accounts for 95% of our freshwater resources.

The evacuation was a result of growing fear after a temple collapsed, in addition to the cracks that appeared in hundreds of houses in the Indian Himalayan town of Joshimath.

Human activities such as groundwater removal and other natural causes are leading to sinking of the Earth's surface and the phenomenon will affect 635 million people, mostly in Asia, with a total exposed Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $9.78 trillion in the next four years, warn researchers.