Parts of California’s Central Valley have been sinking for years, but a new Stanford study quantifies just how much the ground has given way in the past two decades.

Parts of California’s coastline are sinking, according to a NASA-led ... the most dramatic sinking of land is happening in ...

Parts of New Orleans and Houston are sinking at a rate of 2 inches per year. Areas of the Central Valley in California are sinking even faster. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Now stripped of its once vast wetlands and nearly sucked dry from the overpumping of groundwater during the West’s increasingly common droughts, the fertile Central Valley in California is in need of ...

Depleted groundwater threatens communities, agriculture, and ecosystems in California's Central Valley, which produces much of the nation's fruit, vegetables, and nuts. But the same acres where ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Officials at the Central Valley Fire District reached out to us wanting to set the record straight about deploying firefighters to California earlier this year. We told you ...