A new academic study found nearly half of Houston's land is subsiding at least 1/5 of an inch each year, outpacing the ...

Cities across the country are sinking, especially in Houston and other cities in Texas, posing significant threats from ...

If you live in a major American city, the ground might be sinking beneath you. Ground beneath major U.S. cities —including New York, Dallas and Seattle —is slowly but steadily sinking, with more than ...

Satellite data revealed that Houston is the fastest-sinking city in the U.S., and that all of the other biggest cities are ...

Dallas and Fort Worth are sinking at a rate of 4 millimeters per year due to groundwater loss, a recent study found.

Houston, as the saying nearly goes, has a problem. The city is one of 25 American metropolises to be officially sinking, according to a new study using measurements from space.

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...

San Francisco is sinking. SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco is one of several major cities in the United States that's sinking, ...

The most populated cities in the country are slowly subsiding, posing risks to infrastructure and exacerbating flooding—and ...

Research published last week in the scientific journal Nature Cities also shows that Detroit is not alone. In fact, of the 28 ...

Fort Worth and Houston exhibit the highest proportion of sinking areas," the study states. Houston's subsidence issues have been well documented, according to reporting from our sister station KHOU.