The Mekong Delta is among the world's five most vulnerable deltas due to challenges such as climate change, sediment loss from upstream hydropower dams, freshwater scarcity, land subsidence, and ...
A new study by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and collaborators has revealed that 35 buildings along the Miami Beach to Sunny Isles ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...