Some inspectors stumble upon the weirdest during their examinations of buildings. Like skulls. Or occult altars. Or dolls ...

In 1993, researchers exploring a cave in southern Italy found a sinkhole leading to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a ...

The viral QuikTrip collapse video from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is fake. There are no official reports of a sinkhole in the ...

Op-ed: From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, reveals the long pattern of Black Americans ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

Some of the world’s biggest megacities are located in river deltas threatened by subsidence due to excessive groundwater ...

It has been a long time since books by Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973) were on many bookshelves. Her “Yankee from Olympus” biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes the New York Times obituary called ...

Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica after the storm made landfall on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, one of the ...

More than 130 people died as floodwaters swept through the region on July 4. Now, recovery continues amid legal action and ...

The axing of a Palestinian-Australian author has led to the cancellation of one of Australia's premier writers' ...