The Mekong Delta, Vietnam, is one of the world's leading food crop producers, but its agricultural sector is under threat.

The study by Stanford University researchers is the first to quantify the full extent of land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the world’s major farming regions, during the last two ...

The hot summer led to a huge surge in subsidence problems as British homes suffered in the dry heat. Insurers said claims between July and September were at the highest level for 12 years ...

Groundwater pumping has been causing the land to sink at a record pace in California's San Joaquin Valley. New research suggests ways of addressing the problem.

While researchers have known that subsidence — the technical term ... became host to a ballooning farming sector and groundwater pumping between 1925 and 1970, per the study.

Attorney General Kris Mayes is going to court with a largely untested legal theory in a bid to force a Saudi company to stop it from “excessively pumping groundwater” at its western Arizona alfalfa ...