Land is sinking underneath millions of peoples’ feet in China’s major cities due to human activities ... which has slowed the region’s rate of subsidence. Decades ago, Shanghai’s ...

A deadly fire last week in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang region, was the catalyst for public outrage, with protesters taking to the streets of cities around the country over ...

Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking because of water extraction ... facing the worst problems are concentrated in the five regions highlighted on the map shown. The scale of decline ...