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

A global study of major river deltas shows human-driven land subsidence is now overtaking climate change as the biggest flood ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

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 ...

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 ...

The assessment spanning 40 delta regions worldwide has identified the three in eastern India among 19 where land subsidence — ...

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: ...

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 ...