Brace yourselves for this news. New York City, one of the most popular cities on the planet, is sinking. At least, that is what a major new study is claiming. Published inEarth’s Futurethis past week, several scientists found that New York City was sinking due to all of its buildings...
What's the story? A new study in the Earth's Future journal found that New York City is sinking under the weight of its
A look at other cities shows that New York is not alone with this problem. For example, Jakarta in Indonesia is also sinking very fast – much faster than the sea level rose. Parts of the Indonesian capital are sinking at a rate of 2 to 5 cm per year. And Mexico City, although not...
“New York is emblematic of growing coastal cities all over the world that are observed to be subsiding,” the study authors write,“meaning there is a shared global challenge of mitigation against a growing inundation hazard.” The increasing risk to sea level rise in New York City, specifica...
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“As coastal cities grow globally, the combination of construction densification and sea level rise imply increasing inundation hazard,” a summary of the research said. “The point of the paper is to raise awarenessthat every additional high-rise building constructed at coastal, river, or lakefron...
There are 25.4mm in an inch, and according to their findings, up to 2.1 million people are affected by 2mm of subsidence annually, and that includes 867,000 properties. But certain cities in states like New York, Virginia, the Carolinas and Florida are “hot spots” of even greater subside...
Several years later its service was largely limited to voyages between New York and Mediterranean cities. 1 of 2 Survivors of the Titanic's sinking aboard the CarpathiaTitanic disaster survivors aboard the Carpathia, April 1912.(more) 2 of 2 Carpathia Capt. Arthur Henry Rostron and Molly Brown...
Mitigating risk around sinking cities Subsidence can pose an even earlier flooding threat than sea level rise, the research suggests, and not just in New York City. “It’s a global issue. My coauthors from the University of Rhode Islandlookedat 99 cities around the world, not only coastal ...
The central question sinking cities like Bangkok need to focus on is: “how are we going to live with the water, without fear?” said Voraakhom. This idea of “living with the water” lies at the heart of her design approach.