Some of the world’s biggest megacities are located in river deltas threatened by subsidence due to excessive groundwater ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

It’s not just that sea levels are rising. Scientists believe fossil fuel extraction and river engineering are also factors ...

A study published in Nature shows that many of the world's major river deltas are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, ...

Researchers analyzed 40 deltas across five continents, including the Mississippi, Mekong, Nile and Ganges–Brahmaputra systems ...

The nation's biggest cities are sinking, according to data from a new study. Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction, ...

Far beneath central Turkey, a dense slab of rock is peeling away from the bottom of the continent and sinking into the mantle ...