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 ...

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, ...

The effects are being felt in key agricultural regions nationwide as farmers have drained groundwater to grow animal feed. In Arkansas for example, where cotton was once king, the land is now ...

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 ...

Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater ... On the map, three cities (San Jose, Memphis, and Jacksonville) have green ...

Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater ... On the map, three cities — San Jose, Memphis, and Jacksonville — have ...