In every city studied, at least 20% of the urban area is sinking – and in 25 of 28 cities, at least 65% is sinking. The nation's biggest cities are sinking, according to data from a new study.

Massive ongoing groundwater extraction was found to be the ... used satellite data to map out vertical land movements in 28 of the most populous cities, those where populations exceed 600,000 ...

The new study looked at the 28 most populous cities in the U.S. and 25 of them are experiencing subsidence, or land sinking, ...

Mississippi initiated the latest round of this confrontation in 2014 when it sued Tennessee for allegedly stealing hundreds of billions of gallons of groundwater ... wells in the Memphis area ...

These groundwater springs are resources that are often hidden and exposed to destruction by agriculture. About 53 percent of the ecosystems identified on the map are undergoing depletion ...

This alarming finding emerged from the first high-resolution global groundwater sulfate distribution map. A recent study by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has revealed ...