California’s Delta wetlands burn test explores carbon storage
A pilot burn in California’s Delta explores how cultural fire practices may increase carbon storage, restore wetlands, and reduce land subsidence.
Tag: land subsidence
A new National Ground Water Association editorial explains how aquitards, the low-permeability layers beneath our feet, quietly control groundwater flow, contamination, subsidence, and water quality.
Despite heavy rains, Arizona’s Willcox Basin continues to sink from decades of groundwater pumping, a scientist warns at a Geological Society meeting.
Metropolitan Water District partners with rice farmers on Delta islands to combat subsidence, restore wetlands, and support vital habitats.
A silent collapse: Land is sinking beneath major U.S. cities
Major U.S. cities are sinking due to groundwater pumping, with Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Denver among the hardest hit, threatening infrastructure.
Arizona sets an ambitious goal to cut Willcox groundwater overdraft by 50% by 2075 as land subsidence and earth fissures escalate in the region.