NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A new scientific study shows that some of the largest cities in the United States are slowly sinking. In fact, Nashville appears to be sinking about one millimeter each year.

A Jan. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows an authentic National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration graph that reports the relative sea level in Oslo, Norway, has dropped about one ...

Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing spilling down the side of a cake. That was the situation, somewhere between ...

Detroit is experiencing a natural sinking phenomenon at a rate of a tenth of an inch per year due to glacial isostatic adjustment, a process initiated by the melting of an ancient ice sheet. Despite ...

Estimates of sea level during the mid-Pliocene warm period three million years ago vary by 35 m. Model simulations of glacial isostatic adjustment reconcile these values and indicate little to no ...

Climate change is not just warming the planet, it’s also changing how it is shaped by being hidden in plain sight. While most of us are familiar with the visible impacts of global warming, such as ...

The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted, according to analysis of recent satellite data. The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at ...

Spatially corrected sea-level records for the Pacific coast indicate that uplift rates are overestimated by 40 percent, scientists report. Uplift is the vertical elevation of Earth's surface in ...