China’s cities are sinking below sea level, study finds
As China’s cities grow, they are also sinking. An estimated 16 per cent of the country’s major cities are losing more than 10 millimeters (about 0.4 inches) of elevation per …
As China’s cities grow, they are also sinking. An estimated 16 per cent of the country’s major cities are losing more than 10 millimeters (about 0.4 inches) of elevation per …
NEW DELHI: The escalating global temperatures have raised significant concerns, with scientists at the Concordia research station on the eastern edge of the Antarctic plateau documenting a remarkable phenomenon. On …
Below is New York’s JFK Airport—notice the red hotspots of high subsidence against the teal of more mild elevation change. The airport’s average subsidence rate is 1.7 millimeters a year …
NEW DELHI: Meltwater flowing out to sea from beneath Antarctic glaciers, or subglacial discharge, could be making them lose ice faster, researchers have found in a new study. Modelling the …
PARIS: More than 40 percent of Antarctica’s ice shelves lost volume in 25 years, increasing the risk of sea levels rising and with human-induced warming the likely cause, scientists said …
By Laura Paddison | CNN A recently discovered ice core taken from beneath Greenland’s ice sheet decades ago has revealed that a large part of the country was ice-free around …
Protecting the homes and businesses, highways and airports, sewage treatment plants and other key parts of society that ring San Francisco Bay’s shoreline from sea level rise will be a …