Norfolk, Virginia, floods on sunny days now. Not during hurricanes or nor’easters, but on ordinary high tides that push saltwater through storm drains and across neighborhood streets. The city sits in ...

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The nation's biggest cities are sinking, according to data from a new study. Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Yellowstone is a dynamic geologic system—the one constant is change. This is demonstrated daily ...

Map shows the pressure pulse from the river-sourced recharge moving from near the mountain front, into the Valley. It appears as uplift in the InSAR data. The color shows the month of the peak uplift.

As sea levels continue to rise and threaten coastal areas, cities around the world are also sinking. This can happen because the huge populations of massive cities pump a lot of groundwater, which is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nation's biggest cities are sinking, according to data from a new study. Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research reveals why some rivers in the San Joaquin Valley are causing the ground to uplift when others aren’t. The answer ...