If you live in a major Americancity, 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 20% of urban land in all 28 of the country’s largest cities affected, according to new researchpublished in Nature Cities.
The study, led by researchers at Virginia Tech, found that land in these areas is dropping by two to 10 millimeters a year, mostly due to the overuse of groundwater…