Ground subsidence in Gifu Prefecture was likely caused by tunnel construction work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line, Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) said. In the ...

In recent years, the land subsidence due to different phenomena such as excessive withdrawal of groundwater resources has lead to significant damages to farmlands, residential buildings, roads and ...

Indiscriminate extraction of underground water reserves and failure to restore aquifers over the previous decades have led to land subsidence in the country, IRNA quoted Ansari as saying. Successful ...

Yet, climate change’s effects extend beyond immediate weather events into other harmful but perhaps less obvious phenomena. One such phenomenon is land subsidence: the sinking of the ground as the ...

According to the Indian Bureau of Mines, the states of Rajasthan (57%) and Uttarakhand (25%) boast substantial reserves of soapstone in India. Land subsidence is a major concern across Uttarakhand.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian cabinet held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the problem of land subsidence and devise plans to prevent a crisis. The cabinet of ministers, chaired by President ...

The findings, published in Earth and Space Science, reveal alarming rates of subsidence – or land sinking – in coastal structures between 2016 and 2023. According to the report, "About half of the ...

“The development of a systematic [thaw subsidence] monitoring is urgently needed to deliver consistent and continuous exchange of data across different permafrost regions.” Climate change is causing ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic A handful of haunting images connect the 22 short films in From Ground Zero, Palestine’s poignant Academy Award submission: the eerie hum of drones ...