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

Chicago's battle to maintain its status as third-largest city in the U.S. continues as new estimates from the Census Bureau show a change.

This slow-going subsidence is measured in just a handful of millimeters per year, but rising sea levels due to climate change ...

New York, Dallas, and Seattle are seeing urban areas sink by 2 to 10 millimeters per year, according to the data. Researchers ...