A new study using recent satellite data finds that all cities in the United States with populations of more than 600,000 are ...

While land sinking less than an inch per year might not seem like much on paper, small shifts in land can have big effects.

Historical records of $50 million to a few hundred million dollars’ worth of cocaine have been smashed in just the past month, which a Coast Guard spokesperson told the Washington Examiner was ...

WASHINGTON — The D.C.-region is in a dry ... Recent weeks have brought brown lawns, stressed trees and growing concerns. Water levels in smaller streams and creeks have dipped, and some counties ...

Your home could be sinking right now, and you probably have no idea. A new study reveals that major American cities are ...

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The maps allow us to see what the most forested ... In the face of severe water scarcity, the municipality focuses on planting native, drought-tolerant trees like velvet mesquite.

In addition, wells dug to provide water have run dry, as water tables dropped from a combination of drought and overuse ... have made long-standing flood maps obsolete in some areas, and areas ...

Bacteria form tiny ecosystems side by side with our own cells on our skin, in our mouths and along our airways and digestive tracts, as well as on all the surfaces we interact with—including our homes ...

and Washington, constituted hotspots with significantly higher numbers of water system violations.' Lynchburg, Virginia, Florence, Wisconsin, and Sterling, Texas each had systems reporting zero ...

In San Diego, for example, the aquifers are so permeable that even small drops in water level lead to quick, large subsidence events. In Washington ... the country. Map of how much different ...