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: ...

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 ...

Five Indian cities, including Chennai, face a rising threat of land subsidence, which could increase the risk of damage to buildings, due to groundwater over-exploitation, according to a recent study.

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 ...

The extraction of water from aquifers in Iran is causing an area the size of Maryland to sink, exposing an estimated 650,000 people to the risks of subsidence and freshwater depletion. When you ...

Land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley threatens water access and food supply. Westlands Water District leads groundwater recharge with over 470 active projects. Proposition 4 funding could expand ...

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 ...

Kerman, Khorasan Razavi, and Tehran provinces are the most affected by the phenomenon, ISNA quoted Zafari as saying. Land subsidence varies from 2-18 centimeters in different parts of the country, he ...

Thousands of property owners have claimed on their insurance for subsidence in the first half of the year, according to new figures, as record temperatures wreak havoc with building foundations. Over ...

Subsidence-related insurance claims totalled £153 million in the first half of 2025, as households felt the impact of the warm and sunny weather, according to figures from the Association of British ...

Crews work on April 17, 2024, pouring concrete into a mine subsidence that first opened up on April 14, 2024, in Toby’s Creek behind Luzerne Lumber. Decades after underground coal mining all but ended ...