India has spent decades borrowing water from the future. The bill is now due as several regions around the country face acute ...

Jakarta is one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world, and the problem is getting worse each year. Rapid population growth, groundwater extraction, and rising sea levels are all contributing to ...

A new satellite-based study has found that several cities across India are experiencing varying levels of land subsidence. While some cities remain largely stab ...

Most of us assume cities stay exactly where they are. The streets feel solid, the buildings feel permanent. But in many places, the ground is slowly sinking. Venice gets all the attention, yet it is ...

For decades, the story of coastal risk has been dominated by climate change and rising seas. But a major new global study suggests that, for hundreds of millions of people living on river deltas – ...