When a family moves into a brand-new home, the last thing on their mind is what lies beneath the slab. The landscaping is ...

Land subsidence is a geohazard caused by the sudden or gradual settling (years to decades) of the land surface due to the removal of subsurface material. This can be due to a variety of factors, both ...

Results from a meta-analysis literature review of global land subsidence have been reported in a Policy Forum of Science. The findings warn that land subsidence – the sinking of land surfaces – will ...

Land subsidence is a phenomenon wherein the Earth's surface sinks downwards. It occurs mainly due to human activities, such as excessive groundwater extraction. It is a major global concern, affecting ...

A report released in October 2017 by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), titled “Will Global Warming Overflow Chesapeake Bay?“, says the available research indicates ...

Imagine Earth’s surface is like a stack of pancakes. The pancakes, or layers of soil and rocks, may appear fairly evenly stacked and fluffy. Over time though, the stack can become compressed, thinner ...

Auckland - like most major NZ cities - sits on the coast. A combination of of sea level rise and land subsidence is putting urban areas at increased risk of flooding No coastal city is immune to the ...