In the Middle East, excessive groundwater extraction has led to increased sinkhole activity in Iran, Jordan, and the Dead Sea region, where over 6,000 sinkholes have formed due to falling water ...

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 ...

Residents in the Surrey village of Godstone have been evacuated after two sinkholes opened up this week along large parts of the high street. The original hole first appeared late on Monday night ...

LONDON (AP) — Residents in an English village were kept out of their homes Wednesday as experts tried to shore up a large sinkhole that swallowed up parts of the main street up to the edge of at ...

United Utilities workers inspect a sinkhole in Old Swan, Liverpool in 2021 (Peter Byrne/PA) A huge sinkhole that swallowed parts of a high street in Surrey could mean residents are unable to ...