Every year, millions of people pick up their lives and move to new cities chasing better jobs, warmer weather, or a change of ...
Every year, millions of people pack up their lives and move somewhere new. A better job. A fresh start. Warmer winters. But ...
Groundwater is invaluable for many reasons. For one, it’s (usually) cleaner than surface water. It’s also right under your ...
Houston’s western suburbs around Katy and Fulshear are among the fastest-growing areas in the country. This population boom is worsening a problem the Houston area has been battling for decades: ...
The Enterprise-Anderson Groundwater Sustainability Agency will host a community workshop in Redding on groundwater. The event will explore what land subsidence means for Shasta County’s long-term ...
A scientific study in the journal Nature made waves earlier this year when it found that Houston is sinking faster than any other major city in the nation through a phenomenon known as subsidence. But ...
Many people in the San Joaquin Valley have seen the ominous photo: It depicts a person standing next to a telephone pole that bears a series of signs labeled with years. Way at the top of the pole is ...
Dawn and Scott Wilson can’t figure out why a state mining engineer decided the cracks in the basement of a home they own in North Belle Vernon were caused by dry soil rather than mine subsidence. They ...
What was once thought to be a mainly coastal phenomenon is now showing up in most major cities in the U.S. and around the world. Scientists say land subsidence — a so-called “slow-moving hazard” — is ...
To the editor: This article (“Central Valley homeowners are watching property values sink with the land,” Aug. 13) makes clear subsidence is not just an environmental crisis. Decades of unreliable ...