That local subsidence happened during the Carboniferous is not news.
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"Subsidence happens on a couple of different scales," he observed.
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These have made saline contamination worse, and are also causing subsidence.
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From one angle, it looks like six months of subsidence and struggle.
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But the parish's susceptibility to rising sea levels and subsidence is high.
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In America groundwater extraction without commensurate recharge is responsible for 80% of subsidence.
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"We're in an uphill battle against sea-level rise and subsidence," Barth said.
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That, he said, actually caused the land to sink, a process called subsidence.
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One is known as "cover subsidence" and is most common in sandier soils.
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The main subsidence bowls are distributed over the Chaoyang, Changping, Shunyi and Tongzhou districts.
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The gradual subsidence of most cities has several causes, both man-made and natural.
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Expensive, unexciting and unpopular, the war against land subsidence needs support all the same.
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At the same time, some coastal areas are undergoing subsidence, meaning they are sinking.
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The process of land subsidence is slow, often invisible and affects most citizens only rarely.
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It permits researchers to spot subtle signs of subsidence that often presage a sinkhole's formation.
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Chaoyang, in the eastern suburbs, is the worst affected, with subsidence of 11 cm per year.
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Underground water extraction also needed to be cut in order to ease the risk of subsidence.
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Mine-induced subsidence is not unique to China, but its problems dwarf those of other countries.
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Miners are required to pay "subsidence fees" to pay for the cleanup when their mines close.
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Longwall mining, for instance, can destabilize land through subsidence, which can destroy streams and damage property.
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Top: Subsidence rates around Norco, Louisiana, and the location of flood protection levees (shown in white).
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Buried by subsidence, the coal could not be eroded, and thus survived to the present day.
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"Of course if we don't stop the subsidence, the seawall will go down too," says Andreas.
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But the rise can vary because of local factors like uplift or subsidence of the land.
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Overmining has contaminated the city's soil and underground water tables, as well as causing devastating subsidence.
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Many homes in Utqiaġvik are built on platforms to prevent flooding due to permafrost thaw and subsidence.
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The subsidence craters that scar the soil mimic crop circles but are the result of underground blasts.
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The new study will be used for planning purposes, including efforts to remediate and reverse subsidence processes.
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The new sediment would have formed a fresh layer of soil and, in this way, countered subsidence.
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As might be expected, the largest degree of subsidence occurred in southern California where the drought struck the hardest.
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In the past such subsidence would have been offset by a perennial supply of silt deposited by tributary rivers.
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Already, he said, sea level rise and subsidence leave the road to the station frequently flooded at high tides.
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The city is prone to floods and is sinking due to subsidence, caused by millions of residents using up groundwater.
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As when facing the challenges posed by climate change, politicians tend to balk at most proposals to stop land subsidence.
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Assuming this rate of subsidence continues, it could translate to an eight-feet drop in the most severely affected regions.
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A view of Kiruna Church and other buildings slated for removal or demolition thanks to ground subsidence in Kiruna, Sweden.
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But she puts a larger share of the blame for land subsidence on commercial use by hotels, malls and businesses.
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Mr. Haney said pumping in the Mojave could permanently damage the groundwater basin through subsidence, or sinking of the ground.
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Areas of the valley are experiencing significant subsidence, or sinking, due to the overpumping of groundwater out of aquifers by farms.
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A surge in subsidence claims prompted by extreme weather wiped out operating profit at L&G's general insurance unit last year.
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Trumpism isn't a flood tide; it's a subsidence flood, caused by the hollowing out of the ground beneath our democratic institutions.
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Triggered by the extra warmth, subsidence caused by slumping permafrost has lowered the surface of the experimental plots by several feet.
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Experts and residents agree that over-extraction of groundwater for drinking and commercial use is largely responsible for the land subsidence.
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Critics, however, say the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development (NCICD) program does not address land subsidence - the underlying reason for flooding.
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Rising seas, subsidence and erosion have seen 98% of the surface of Isle de Jean Charles smothered by water since 1950.
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Chavez explains that the use of block cave mining would create subsidence areas, where the surface of the earth will cave in.
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But due to natural subsidence and the higher tides caused by global warming, the city is more vulnerable to flooding than ever before.
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To save itself, the city will first and foremost have to figure out how to find more sources of water to stop subsidence.
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However, such assets offer very little toward slowing subsidence or creating buffers between people and floods that also add aesthetic and recreational value.
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"The impacts relating to air quality, noise, subsidence, groundwater and greenhouse gas emissions have not been fully considered in this application," it said.
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Research by Kolker and others shows that much of the subsidence affecting Louisiana's coast relates to these patterns of oil and gas withdrawal.
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He added that, although it was "a shame" to fell living trees, one was causing subsidence and cracking the walls of his house.
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Some have been pressed under the additional weight of enormous skyscrapers; they are judged to be responsible for 30% of metropolitan Shanghai's surface subsidence.
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Kiribati, a tiny Pacific island nation (that has more to fear from climate change than subsidence) wants to become the world's first floating republic.
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The modelling will include local ground deformation and subsidence effects which can affect heights, as well as global tectonic motion which is mostly horizontal.
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In the past 100 years, it has climbed about a foot or more in some U.S. cities because of ocean currents and land subsidence.
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"The big solution is water management, to stop groundwater pumping," says Heri Andreas, who studies subsidence at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia.
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More groundwater is being used to dilute salty water for irrigation and drinking, which in turn results in land subsidence and exacerbated saltwater intrusion.
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Significant portions of the US's eastern coast are also sinking, due to an ancient, melting glacial ice sheet and the subsidence of its bedrock.
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"The Indonesian project is a nice example that is triggered by land subsidence with respect to sea-level rise," he went on to state.
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Speaking by telephone, he said that the hole — which was filled this week — was a product of subsidence and geological faults beneath the area.
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Oswar Mungkasa, Jakarta's chief resilience officer, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation his city has at least three major problems: transportation, flooding and land subsidence.
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Climate change, land subsidence or sinking, and construction of new levees and dams will change long-term flood exposure in these areas over time.
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In response to the rapid ground subsidence measured by Syvitski and others, major dams along the Yellow River are now starting to flush sediments downstream.
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Forty percent of its 10 million residents get their water from pumping, so they've been draining those bottles, which consequently collapse, leading to land subsidence.
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Coenen said stopping land subsidence is important but could take 15 to 20 years, meaning Jakarta should work on flood prevention at the same time.
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Engineers are using a scale model of the Mississippi River to test a $103 billion proposal to protect the coast from subsidence and climate change.
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Maybe the most alarming consequence of this kind of unrestrained pumping is the dramatic subsidence of the land that can occur as the aquifer recedes.
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The tilted orientation of Emmet Gowin's aerial photograph "Subsidence Craters on Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site" (1603) feels spontaneously captured, like he discovered a strange land.
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Click here to view original GIFHere is how subsidence craters are formed: an underground nuclear explosion gets set off and creates a hole underneath the ground.
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Funded by the Louisiana Office of Community Development, the plan addresses flooding from heavy rainfall, as well as ground subsidence caused by pumping out storm water.
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It may be one to two years before there is reliable, consolidated data on land subsidence, but the findings will feed into the NCICD, JICA said.
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That would require strengthening buildings' foundations, researchers have said; additionally, thawing permafrost could release harmful greenhouse gases and cause landslides and subsidence, threatening buildings, roads and pipelines.
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What we know about the incident: "There are concerns about subsidence in the soil covering railroad tunnels near a former chemical processing facility," per the Energy Department.
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In the northeast of the country, a foundation called EcoShape has been involved in a project to mitigate the impact of both sea level rise and subsidence.
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Enhanced geothermal also has issues with regional seismic disturbances, subsidence, and the extraction of potentially toxic mineral-laden fluid that can clog power plant machinery with mineral deposits.
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The EPA determined that contamination was more pervasive than originally thought, and the ground had suffered from subsidence due to mining so most buildings weren't fit for habitation.
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SOME time, probably in the eighth century AD, earthquakes, floods and subsidence caused the Egyptian coast at Alexandria and towards the Nile delta to sink beneath the waves.
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Due to human-caused global warming, land subsidence and ocean currents, sea levels have risen faster in the Mid-Atlantic than in many other parts of the world.
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The city is sinking—a process known as land subsidence—because residents and industries have been draining aquifers, often illegally, to the point that the land is now collapsing.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story contained an error in a quote from researcher Jaap Nienhuis, who was describing his findings on land subsidence and sea level rise.
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Critics of the NCICD are hoping a three-year project to study and stop land subsidence, agreed in July between Indonesia and Japan's international development agency JICA, could help.
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Gilles Erkens, a geologist with Deltares Research Institute in the Netherlands, points out that in Tokyo regulations enacted in the 1960s to restrict groundwater extraction have stopped land subsidence entirely.
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What was once a boon for governments has now turned into a burden: Xiaoyi has already spent more than 6 billion yuan ($13 million) to treat subsidence, the government said.
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At Bonnet Carré Spillway east of Norco (the area's last line of protection against springtime river floods breaching the levees), the scientists detected upwards of 1.6 inches of annual subsidence.
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The caldera and subsequent caving-in of the land—a process known as subsidence—began when magma seeped up from a depth of 21816 miles (12 km) below the surface.
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Our resilience planning is being amplified by a combined investment of $5.3 billion to improve water, sewer, drainage, roads and green infrastructure to further reduce risks from flooding and subsidence.
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What was once a boon for governments has now turned into a burden: Xiaoyi has already spent more than 6 billion yuan ($901.31 million) to treat subsidence, the government said.
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It involves developing better monitoring systems to measure where subsidence is worst and groundwater extraction heaviest, raising awareness of the dangers, and undertaking mitigation measures such as regulating groundwater usage.
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But the company said the field was approaching the end of its operational life after more than 30 years of production and due to subsidence of the underground chalk reservoir.
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It also revived worries about a process of decline, caused by pollution, urban encroachment and subsidence, that residents and experts fear may destroy the canals in a matter of years.
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"The rates of San Joaquin Valley subsidence documented since 2014 by NASA are troubling and unsustainable," DWR Director William Croyle is quoted saying in a recent post from NASA Earth Observatory.
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The city is prone to floods and sinking due to subsidence, caused by millions of residents using up groundwater and leaving rock and sediment to pancake on top of each other.
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Between 2000 and 21, Louisiana lost more than 2600,225 square miles of coastland to a myriad of factors, including sea level rise, subsidence (land settling or sinking), and oil industry development.
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His sparsely furnished home is riddled with dangerous cracks - the result of subsidence caused by mining - but he said he has not received enough compensation from the state to move out.
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"We were getting subsidence rates of two to four centimeters per year, anywhere along Biscayne Bay or the West Coast of Florida north of Cape Sable," in swamps leveled by the hurricane.
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"Green infrastructure," including rain gardens, retention ponds, permeable surfacing and larger-scale natural areas, can absorb water to slow subsidence and runoff, create new park spaces, and sponge up contaminants for good measure.
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But farmland continues to die out, jobs have been lost, fish populations are at greater risk, land subsidence and other environmental consequences are continuing, and poverty rates are rising in the impacted communities.
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For example, in certain areas in Mexico and Indonesia, there is a lot of subsidence [a term referring to the sinking of land that permanently damages aquifers] and that is due to groundwater pumping.
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As the legend at the bottom of the picture suggests, the yellowest areas are those with the greatest degree of subsidence (the term for sinking land) and the bluest areas are those with the least.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said in a Twitter post on Monday that a GPS station location in the Halemaumau Crater was knocked out of service after subsiding 310 feet as the subsidence continues to grow.
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"At a time when we're having over a foot of sea level rise and accelerating each century, it becomes a race between the mangroves coming back and subsidence that leads to open water," Wanless said.
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A June document outlining an updated NCICD master plan, seen by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, confirmed the new design and emphasized the importance of stopping land subsidence, as well as addressing water and sanitation issues.
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Since Hugo, the area has expanded in population, and sea level rise from climate change and land subsidence has led to increasingly common "sunny day flooding," making any storm surge threat from a hurricane particularly serious.
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Every year around 15,000 acres of marshlands—the pantry that generations of rural cooks drew upon—vanish, because of subsidence, a rising sea level and the impacts of flood protection and the oil-and-gas industry.
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Declaring a coastal "state of emergency" last year, the state's governor said natural and human factors had contributed to the problem, including the effects of climate change, sea-level rise, subsidence, hurricanes, storm surges and flooding.
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Heri Andreas, an expert on land subsidence at the Bandung Institute of Technology, said land in Muara Baru was sinking at a rate of 12 cm (4.7 inches) per year, one of the fastest in Jakarta.
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"We had subsidence in the summer in the UK, the "Beast from the East" in the winter in the UK, Canada had lots of weather losses," CEO Stephen Hester told a media call after the group's results.
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Luigi Cavaleri, an engineer at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice said the city's subsidence and the rising sea levels meant that Venice was sinking at a rate of one-fifth of an inch a year.
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In June, scientists published the most intricate map to date of the rate of subsidence across the coastline, finding that while previous estimates suggested a rate of 143 mm per year, it's actually an average of 9 mm.
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Jakarta is slowly sinking due to an over-extraction of ground water causing subsidence, with rising sea levels making the threat of flooding even worse and pushing the city to come up with elaborate programs to protect residents.
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"Globally at present, levees and seawalls protect low-lying populations in many major deltas, such as around Shanghai, the Netherlands and New Orleans, and in areas experiencing rapid subsidence, such as parts of Jakarta and Tokyo," the report said.
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"Sea level changes at Artà Cave can be caused by the melting and growing of ice sheets or by uplift or subsidence of the island itself," lead author of the new study Jacky Austermann said in a press release.
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The plan was controversial because of its huge cost, the damage it would do to the maritime ecosystem in the enclosed bay and the fact that it did not deal with a significant cause of flooding in Jakarta: subsidence.
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China has been trying to encourage solar developers at home to make use of damaged or contaminated land to build solar or wind power projects, with plants now operating in subsidence-hit regions of Shanxi, the country's top coal province.
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"People have adapted to sea-level rise in the past and will do so in the future," he said, noting protective measures for cities such as Tokyo or Jakarta, which have been sinking relative to sea level because of local subsidence.
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The phenomenon of floods, "acqua alta" in Italian, is caused by a combination of factors, exacerbated by climate change — from rising sea levels and unusually high tides to land subsidence that has caused the ground level of the city to sink.
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But an ambitious plan to build a giant wall to keep out the encroaching sea has come under fire from fishermen who fear for their catches and homes, and water experts who say it doesn't do enough to tackle land subsidence.
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Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost more than 2003,000 square miles of land, roughly the size of Delaware, to subsidence, sea level rise and the loss of sediment caused by construction of the levees along the length of the Mississippi.
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The hope is that warmer months, which typically drive down infections with other more common types of coronavirus (responsible for 10% to 30% of common colds) will lead to a subsidence of cases in the Northern Hemisphere, Fauci told BuzzFeed News.
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The collapsed section is part of the first of three phases under the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development, which has come in for criticism from environmentalists concerned over the impact on the bay and for not fully addressing land subsidence.
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In a bid to protect farms from urban encroachment, China has been trying to encourage the use of damaged or contaminated land for solar and wind power projects, with plants now operating in subsidence-hit regions of Shanxi, the country's top coal province.
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But farmers are worried their water will jump in price once the giant Atotonilco treatment plant launches an effort to clean up Mexico City's sewage, plunging them into competition for the water against the capital, where aquifer depletion is causing widespread subsidence.
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Of this class is the work before us, which in its present form suggests the geological subsidence of a layer of Russian into a substratum of English, leaving a number of the original words to linger fossil-like amid the latter in untranslatable durability.
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"In some regions, however, the drought continues to present challenges including water shortages, over-drafted groundwater basins and land subsidence, dying trees and increased wildfire activity, diminished water for agricultural production, degraded habitat for many fish and wildlife species, and an increased threat of saltwater intrusion."
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Under the current system, operated by a city-owned water company and two private firms, universal access to piped water would be achieved only by 2022, too late to stop groundwater extraction in time to brake further land subsidence, the report from the Dutch non-profits said.
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Our best models estimate that New York City will see 1.6 to 3.2 feet (half a meter to a meter) of sea level rise by the end of the 21st century, thanks to ongoing subsidence of the land, melting ice sheets, and the expansion of seawater as it warms up.
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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Louisiana faces the highest rate of sea-level rise of any coastal region on the planet: As seas rise, Louisiana's land is sinking, part of an ancient geologic process of subsidence accelerated by the levee system itself, which prevents mud from the Mississippi River from replenishing the land.
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Last year a study of the San Francisco Bay area found that maps of 100-year-flood risk—the risk posed by the worst flood expected over 123 years—based on sea-level rise alone underestimate the area under threat by as much as 90% compared with maps that accounted for land that was getting lower because of subsidence.
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Perhaps the case is long-since lost down that ever-widening gap between your hallway and bathroom (it's called subsidence, and yes, you should call the landlord), but the disc remains nestled within your hasn't-been-on-in-five-years (but how fondly you recall those nights of eye-reddening sessions and supermarket brand lager) PS212.
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