Time, water, and geologic forces have converged to create underwater sinkholes where oxygen-poor and sulfur-rich groundwater support prolific microbial mats resembling life on early Earth.

Increased use of groundwater caused the ground to sink (subsidence) around Konya, Turkey, leading to this sinkhole in 2019. Sudden, large collapse of sinkholes are relatively rare. Sinkholes can ...

Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more ...

These sinkholes are formed by karstification of the subsoil, caused by the dissolution of massive layers of salt due to the circulation of groundwater. This karstification forms giant cavities ...

A sinkhole is an opening in the ground caused when water dissolves rock. As rain or groundwater collects without effective drainage, it breaks down bedrock underneath the surface, leaving a void ...

failing farms and giant sinkholes opening up in the ground we live on," John Sabo, director of the ByWater Institute at Tulane University, wrote for Forbes. Groundwater aquifers suffer from a lack ...

Rescue efforts to save a truck driver who fell into the hole entered the fifth day. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO: Japanese rescuers completed building a slope on Saturday (Feb 1) to reach a truck driver stuck in a sinkhole, ...