The Colorado River basin has lost huge volumes of groundwater over the past two decades, according to a new report from ...

Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction," say the study authors, though other forces are at work in some places. The ...

Massive ongoing groundwater extraction ... Nature Cities. The study, by researchers from Virginia Tech and several other U.S. universities, used satellite data to map out vertical land movements ...

— Most of the total water losses occurred in the drier Lower Colorado River basin. It lost 20.7 million acre-feet of ...

Some of the biggest U.S. cities are sinking, and New York City is among them. The study, lead by Columbia Climate School postdoctoral researcher Leonard Ohenhen, found the most common ...

The goal is to rapidly expand the areas where we store water -- not by building reservoirs, but by returning millions of ...

New research from Arizona State University professors shows the Lower Colorado River Basin has lost as much groundwater as is ...

The new study looked at the 28 most populous cities in the U.S. and 25 of them are experiencing subsidence, or land sinking, ...

A map of locations with vulnerability to ... Ohio and Texas. A 2011 Ground Water Protection Council study found that orphan wells caused 41 groundwater contamination incidents in Ohio between ...

Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction ... of oil and gas, the study says. On the map, why do some cities ...