According to the study, led by Marin Govorcin pointed out that California’s land is sinking faster than the sea is rising in ...

NASA scientists used satellite measurements to map out local subsidence and uplift across the Golden State, which plays into ...

Tracking and predicting sea level rise involves more than measuring the height of our oceans: Land along coastlines also ...

The sinking is being blamed upon unchecked groundwater pumping and wastewater injection as well as natural events like ...

Cliffs slope into the ocean in San Simeon, California. All along the state's dynamic coastline, land is inching down and up ...

With aquifers nationwide in dangerous decline, an estimated 500,000 acres of farmland may be taken out of cultivation by 2040 ...

Parts of the California Aqueduct have been raised to preserve flow. Accelerated land subsidence — or sinking — was observed after the drought of 2020-2022. Groundwater levels began to ...

The elevation changes may seem small — amounting to fractions of inches per year — but they can increase or decrease local ...

Subsidence refers to the gradual sinking of land due to natural or human-induced factors ... Another possibility is to integrate long-term monitoring programs that track subsidence patterns over time, ...