Several places along the San Francisco Bay — in San Rafael, Corte Madera, Foster City and Bay Farm Island next to the Oakland Airport — are sinking at a rate of more than 0.4 of an inch per ...

Thursday marked the last full day that vehicles were allowed to drive on San Francisco's Upper Great Highway. The road permanently closed to traffic at 5 a.m. Friday in the first major step of ...

Parts of California’s coastline are sinking, according to a NASA-led study published earlier this year in Science Advances.

Sea-level rise is threatening San Francisco’s shores. In February, the city began vegetating the sand dunes as part of its ...

In sinking hotspots like San Rafael and Foster City in the San Francisco Bay Area, the ground is dropping by more than 0.4 inches (10 millimeters) per year. That sinking means local sea levels ...

Parts of some bayside communities in Marin are sinking at an accelerated pace, making them more vulnerable to threats from ...

The speed is more than enough to put human life and infrastructure at risk,” Alexander Handwerger, a landslide scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said.

The study on preparing Bay Area communities for rising sea levels says Marin faces $17 billion in expenses to build adaptive ...

T​he research team used satellite data to track land subsidence, or sinking, along the coast of California. Sinking can ...

In many parts of the world land is moving down faster than the sea itself is going up', explained the lead author of the ...