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The Colossal Weight of Cities Is Making Them Sink, Even as Sea Levels Are Rising – ScienceAlert
Cities don’t just have sea level rises to worry about – they’re also slowly sinking under the weight of their own development, according to new research, which…
Cities don’t just have sea level rises to worry about they’re also slowly sinking under the weight of their own development, according to new research, which emphasises the importance of factoring subsidence into models of climate change risk.
Geophysicist Tom Parsons, from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) agency, looked at San Francisco as a case study of how large urban developments could be affecting and depressing the actual surface of the Earth.
By his calculations, San Francisco…
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