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Cities are sinking, and it’s making them more vulnerable to climate change
Coastal cities are more vulnerable to rising seas than previously thought.
America’s coastal cities are sinking, putting more people at risk for flooding than urban planners might have expected with sea level rise alone. “It’s like sinking in the bottom of a bowl and suddenly you start to get water coming up around your ankles,” says Kristina Hill, program director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California, Berkeley who was not involved in the study. “The solutions to that problem of land subsidence are available in our toolbox and very effective in a short time frame,” says Manoochehr Shirzaei, another author of the study and director of Virginia Tech’s Earth Observation and Innovation Lab.
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