Nearly a third of China's urban population lives in areas that are subsiding, according to a sweeping national survey of 82 major Chinese cities. In coastal areas, that makes sea level rise worse.
Nearly a third of China's urban population lives in areas that are subsiding, according to a sweeping national survey of 82 major Chinese cities. In coastal areas, that makes sea level rise worse.Nearly half of the major cities in China are sinking, a new study finds. Subsidence exacerbates flooding related to sea level rise from climate change. Parts of Shanghai have subsided up to 9 feet in the last century.Nearly half of the major cities in China are sinking, a new study finds.
"This is a big problem," says Robert Nicholls, a subsidence expert at the University of East Anglia in England who was not involved in the study."The scale is large. Without doubt, it brings home that this is not a local problem. This is a national, or even international, problem." "The places that really have high levels of subsidence are Asia," says Nicholls, who was one of the authors of athat analyzed sinking cities across the U.S. Asia is at higher risk, he says, because many Asian cities are built on river deltas that are prone to sinking when you put heavy buildings on top and pump groundwater out from below. The places that are sinking most rapidly in the U.S., such as New Orleans, share that geology.
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