When The Earth Swallowed a Lake. November 20, 1980, is a new day at Lake Peigneur in Louisiana. Some 9 miles north of the Vermilion Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, a charming, calm lake is a popular resort ...

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...

Dozens were evacuated and at least one garden was swallowed by a sinkhole in a southern English village on Monday, local reports say. The sinkhole, which formed in the village of Godstone in ...

The problems on Route 80, including the latest sinkholes, can be traced back to mining activity more than two centuries ago.

EVANSVILLE — A sinkhole that shut down a westbound stretch of Riverside Drive on Monday has deepened, and officials say the road will remain partially closed to traffic for “several days ...

Sinkholes can occur gradually when the surface ... with monster-size holes cracking the earth from Siberia to Louisiana. Filled with compelling eyewitness video of dramatic collapses, and ...