Citizens who drill their own boreholes are now being charged by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA), effectively penalizing people for finding their own solutions in the face of government ...

And as water-hungry industries pumped enormous quantities of groundwater out of that land, he explained, the land compacted. Subsidence ... atop concrete blocks or tables, and stowed important ...

Much of California’s interior is a table-flat landscape lined by ruler-straight roads stretching toward distant mountains. It ...

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...

The most populated cities in the country are slowly subsiding, posing risks to infrastructure and exacerbating flooding—and ...

A new study published on Thursday in the journal Nature Cities mapped the scale of this slow-motion crisis across the country ...

Dehradun: The Centre on Saturday approved Rs 291 crore for stabilisation and reconstruction work in subsidence ... worsening underground water seepage and destabilising land under homes.