SOM improves soil structure and reduces erosion, leading to improved water quality in groundwater and surface waters, and ultimately to increased food security and decreased negative impacts to ...

Land subsidence is a significant environmental issue that occurs when the ground sinks due to various factors, including groundwater ... significant internal erosion that contributed to the ...

Tokyo sank by almost 7ft (2 metres) until the practice of extracting groundwater from beneath parts of the city was halted and Venice also experienced major subsidence in the last century for the ...

“There’s also beach erosion. There’s subsidence and there’s also rising groundwater tables ... contaminating drinking water and soil as well as damage to septic tanks, underground ...