A recent study by a NASA-led team has detailed the areas of California where land is sinking, or rising, the most. While NASA ...

"In many parts of the world, like the reclaimed ground beneath San Francisco, the land is moving down faster than the sea itself is going up," Govorcin said in a statement. The researchers' map of ...

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

Over 100-year-old school library in Sawantwadi taluka faces threat from potential mining, sparking environmental and health ...

The speed is more than enough to put human life and infrastructure at risk,” Alexander Handwerger, a landslide scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said.

Springs are where groundwater daylights — a rare window into the aquifer. This same aquifer that supports 90% of O‘ahu’s ...

Although world economic cycles and shifting technologies such as the ... No amount of money, from the company or the government, could then restore the land or the aquifer under it, he said. It’s why ...

Capturing water from fog - on a large scale - could provide some of the driest cities in the world with drinking water ... in the region are underground aquifers - rock layers that contain ...

Scientists estimate fog nets could collect up to 10 liters of water per square meter daily during peak months.

Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of ...