Twenty-eight major cities in ... in the journal Nature Cities. The study, by researchers from Virginia Tech and several other U.S. universities, used satellite data to map out vertical land ...

New York, Dallas, Seattle and 25 other major U.S. cities are sinking, threatening the structural integrity of buildings, roads, dams and other forms of infrastructure, new research found.

New York, Dallas, Seattle and 25 other major U.S. cities are sinking, threatening the structural integrity of buildings, roads, dams and other forms of infrastructure, new research found.

A new study reveals that many major U.S. cities are sinking due ... the study says. A few cities on the study's map — San Jose, Memphis and Jacksonville — are depicted with green dots, which ...

On the map, three cities (San Jose, California; Memphis, Tennessee; and Jacksonville, Florida) have green dots, indicating "uplift." Why is this? "The uplift we detect is an average across the ...

Authors suspect that draining the groundwater upon which the cities sit is a major contributor. If that practice continues — not just in the U.S. but around the world — it could put lives at risk. “As ...

On the map, three cities (San Jose, California; Memphis, Tennessee; and Jacksonville, Florida) have green dots, indicating "uplift." Why is this? "The uplift we detect is an average across the city ...

In Texas, the problem is exacerbated by pumping of oil and gas, the study says. On the map, why do some cities show uplift instead of sinking? On the map, three cities (San Jose, California ...

All 28 of the most populous cities in the U.S. are sinking, worsening risks of flooding and damage to urban infrastructure, a new study finds. One of the main culprits is the extraction of ...