Dozens of coastal regions around the world, including Jakarta, Lagos and Tianjin are sinking at an alarming rate.

The loss of intertidal wetlands directly impacts ecosystem services such as water filtration, habitat for fisheries and shorebirds, and carbon storage capacity,” says Tina Dura, assistant professor of ...

Increasing interplay among extreme events and land subsidence impacts calls for urgent mitigation and policy action to reduce detrimental ramifications to infrastructure and people.

Cities across the U.S., including inland ones such as Denver and Dallas, are settling into the earth, posing increased ...

Seas are forecast to rise from 8 inches to 23 inches along the nation’s coasts by 2050. But risks extend well past the ...

Indianapolis, like many other US cities, is continuously sinking. Some researchers fear it might impact drainage, flood ...

During an earthquake scenario with the highest level of subsidence, or land sink, the area at risk of flooding would expand by 116 square miles. Among the areas at risk after a megaquake along the ...

California isn’t the only coastal oasis that’s at risk of submersion. Scientists have revealed that certain regions on the island of Oahu, Hawaii are sinking into the sea 40 times faster than ...

A massive quake might drop the Pacific Northwest coastline by 6 feet, redrawing flood maps and putting thousands of homes at risk.

This sinking, known as subsidence, could cause major flooding in these low-lying areas much sooner than expected, particularly in urban parts of O‘ahu. The lead researcher, Kyle Murray ...