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At a small stream in India's eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The bounty of communal farming, foraging and fishing ...
New data shows land is sinking in all major U.S. cities, with Houston hit hardest, and climate change and urban growth could ...
A new study published in Nature Cities highlights how Indianapolis and 27 major urban cities in the US are sinking by 2 to 10 ...
The study finds that some cities are sinking at different rates in different spots, or sinking in some places and rising in ...
In every city studied, at least 20% of the urban area is sinking – and in 25 of 28 cities, at least 65% is sinking. The ...
Groundbreaking research from Columbia University reveals that land beneath America’s largest cities is sinking—mostly due to groundwater extraction—posing a hidden but growing threat to infrastructure ...
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.
New York, Dallas, and Seattle are seeing urban areas sink by 2 to 10 millimeters per year, according to the data. Researchers ...
Researchers created high-resolution maps showing the sinking areas using satellite-based radar measurements. These cities are ...
At least 65 percent of urban areas in 25 major cities are sinking, with some local spots dropping by about two inches a year, ...