When the Sea Moves Inland: A Global Climate Wake-up Call From Bangladesh's Delta

When the sea moves inland: A global climate wake-up call from Bangladesh's Delta

As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt.

A study shows that most large American cities sink several millimetres a year, as do other cities around the world. Several of them are all the more threatened by the rise of the oceans. Soils are not inert. Depending on their nature, the way they are used and their geological history, they are likely to rise or sink – what is known as subsidence. Movements that may weaken surface-built infrastructure, roads or tarmac airports, bridges, dams, fa…

The extraction of groundwater, plate tectonics and the consequences of the last glacial period mean that most of the largest cities in the United States are sinking Skyline from New York can begin to be very different if the metropolis continues to sink More than two dozen of the largest cities in the United States are sinking, this [...]