On January 21, 2026, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) published its Best Management Practices of the Sustainable Management ...
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18 of Earth's biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising
Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.
The California Department of Water Resources plans to issue new regulations requiring local groundwater sustainability agencies to take immediate actions to prevent more land from sinking due to ...
A global study of major river deltas shows human-driven land subsidence is now overtaking climate change as the biggest flood ...
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Experts issue warning about looming threat to coastal cities: 'There's nothing we can do about it'
"We hope this [research] encourages people to play a role." Experts issue warning about looming threat to coastal cities: ...
“Disappearing cities on U.S. coasts,” a peer-reviewed study published this month in the journal Nature, shows that subsidence is especially pronounced along the Gulf Coast, where sea-level rise has ...
Prediction of global land subsidence (a) and zoomed in for North America (b), South America (c), Europe and North Africa (d), Middle East (e) and South, East and South-East Asia (f). Credit: ...
When over-pumping of groundwater causes land in the San Joaquin Valley to sink, it tends to take home values with it, according to new research out of the University of California, Riverside. The ...
The assessment spanning 40 delta regions worldwide has identified the three in eastern India among 19 where land subsidence — largely attributed to the over-extraction of groundwater — affects over 90 ...
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