Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sunny Isles Beach is already taking another look at many of its gleaming high-rises in the wake of a new study by the University ...

Residents of Surfside were caught off guard by new findings that several buildings in the coastal town are reportedly sinking.

The country’s 28 most populous metros are slowly sinking, according to a study published in the journal Nature Cities. The land beneath these cities is subsiding, mostly because people are using too ...

The area where a building partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla. showed signs of land subsidence in the 1990s, according to space-based radar data analyzed by an FIU professor. The 2020 land and sea ...

All the biggest US cities are sinking, a new study found with satellite analysis. In 28 cities, about 29,000 buildings are at risk of damage and worsening flooding. This sinking, or subsidence, is ...

During an earthquake, soil can weaken through subsidence and liquefaction. These processes can cause buildings to collapse as the soil becomes unable to support their weight. Researchers have now ...

High rises are heavy, and that can cause the ground below them to slowly sink and settle, especially right after they’re constructed. But in Miami, dozens of buildings along the coast are sinking at ...

Parts of the Los Angeles region are gradually sinking, and that slow descent can compound the flood threat posed by rising seas along the Southern California coast. A NASA-led study mapped vertical ...