由文章第一段“With the weight of its tall buildings, streets and people, New York City is sinking at an average rate of 1 to 2 millimetres each year, a new study says.(项新的研究表明,由于高楼、街道和人口的重量,纽约市正以每年1至2毫米的平均速度下沉。)”以及第五段“A researcher said ...
New York City is slowly sinking. With the weight of its tall buildings, streets and people, the city is sinking at an average rate of 1 to 2 millimeters each year, a new study says. The sinking is called “subsidence.” That natural process happens everywhere as ground is compressed. But...
Scientists studying sea-level rise found that the weight of New York City’s buildings is causing the city to sink. Using NYC as an example, they caution that new flooding risks can come from building too many high-rises near waterfront. The sinking caused by heavy buildings is something ...
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New York City Another Present Era, by Elaine Perry (1990) 10 May 2024 Harlem native Michael A. Gonzales has been on the trail of neglected Black writers for a number of years, first with his feature The Blacklist for Catapault and now with CrimeReads. More recently, he was instrumental ...
1910. (New York Transit Museum) The heat wave of 1934 spread misery from the Midwest to the East Coast. The temperature in New York City hit 101 degrees F (38.3 C) on June 29, and July recorded at least ten days of temps in the mid- to upper 90s. It must have been miserable in...
At Hopkins, I aim to spread the concept of Tikkun Olam and carry my initiative to fight against pollution, as I intend to develop new systems with my peers and professors to build a greener campus, just as I did in my city. Hopkins is the ideal place for this thanks to the variety ...
The book, which will be out in English next year, doesn’t dwell on the sinking; its heroine is a pregnant young woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later: "Nobody wanted to heal about it, not here in the West (of Germany) and not at all in the East." The reason was...
*** “Wall Street” is not just a physical location; it’s a symbol and metonym for the financial industry and the American economy as a whole. While physically located in Lower Manhattan in New York City, “Wall Street” represents much more than just the buildings and institutions situated...
Sinking city risks — and a mystery The researchers calculated the mass of the 1,084,954 buildings that existed across the five boroughs of New York City at the time, reaching the conclusion that they weighed about 1.68 trillion pounds (762 billion kilograms) — equivalent to roughly 1.9 milli...