Archive for the ‘Subsidence’ Category
The World’s Fastest-Sinking Megacity Has One Last Chance to Save Itself
December 11th, 2023
How Cities Are Trying To Stop Their Land From Sinking
June 20th, 2023
The World’s Fastest-Sinking Megacity Has One Last Chance to Save Itself
December 11th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at how parts of Jakarta are subsiding at unprecedented speed. The longshot fix rests with noodle billionaire Anthoni Salim: Venice is sinking. So are Rotterdam, Bangkok and New York. But no place compares to Jakarta, the fastest-sinking megacity on the planet. Over the past 25 years, the hardest-hit areas of […]
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June 20th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a look at how some cities are putting water back into the ground, a process called managed aquifer recharge, to stabilize land subsidence: Groundwater has historically been a lifeline in California’s Coachella Valley. Water for farming, for your home and community? It came from under your feet, but the extractions […]
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