The battleship Tirpitz, Germany’s largest and warship of WWII, was an enormous threat to Allied naval operations. In response ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The SS United States travels along the Hudson ...

Houston’s western suburbs around Katy and Fulshear are among the fastest-growing areas in the country. This population boom is worsening a problem the Houston area has been battling for decades: ...

In January, a NASA-led study was published in the peer-reviewed American Association for the Advancement of Science journal Science Advances. Los Angeles, like New York City, is central in part ...

As China’s cities become taller, bigger and more modern, they face a major problem: the ground beneath them is sinking. A 2024 study 1 found that nearly half of the land under the country’s major ...

The sprawling master-planned community of Tamarron west of Houston features lush lawns, fountains, pools and man-made lakes – but few signs that heavy groundwater extraction is slowly causing the area ...

This sinking is the result of intensive groundwater extraction to support agriculture in the region, which lowers the water table in the basin, taking the land surface down with it. Past research has ...

Dozens of cruise ship passengers were left stranded at sea after their 40-foot catamaran sank off the coast of the Dominican Republic, officials said. The ship, named Boca de Yuma, was traveling in ...

Rising sea levels and subsiding shorelines are putting New Zealand's coastal communities at risk. A new study revealed that human activities heighten and expedite the risks of sinking cities. As ...

KITSAP COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington Department of Ecology says a 64-foot tugboat called the Mollusk detached from its anchor after losing power and was found breaking apart near the Kingston Marina ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The gales of November came early—and in ...

Malaysia's Maritime Enforcement Agency rescues two people, with dozens more missing, after a boat capsized near the Thai border. Officials believe the boat was carrying undocumented migrants who ...