A team has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world.

Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could ...

Rep. Andy Hopper, R-Decatur, and Sen. Tan Parker, R-Flower Mound, wrote companion bills that call for forming the Wise Regional Water District to provide surface water as the county continues to grow.

The study, published in the journal Nature Cities, found that 42% of Houston’s land area was sinking about one-fifth inch per ...

Satellite data revealed that Houston is the fastest-sinking city in the U.S., and that all of the other biggest cities are ...

A new study published on Thursday in the journal Nature Cities mapped the scale of this slow-motion crisis across the country ...

The cities include not just those on the coasts, where sea level rise is a concern, but many in the interior. And one is in Ohio. Here's where.

A recent study shows most of the biggest cities in the country are sinking, and three Texas cities are doing so faster than ...

A major reason is too much groundwater is being pumped out, new research shows, threatening buildings and infrastructure ...

President Donald Trump called for the government to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Now he will reportedly ...

At least 65 percent of urban areas in 25 major cities are sinking, with some local spots dropping by about two inches a year, ...

Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction," ...