New York’s iconic towering structures may be contributing to the city slowly being swallowed by surrounding waterways, a new study says.
NEW YORK — New York City may be sinking by a couple millimeters every year due to the weight of its skyscrapers.
“New York City faces accelerating inundation risk from sea level rise, subsidence, and increasing storm intensity from natural and anthropogenic causes,” researchers said.“Development and filling in of tributaries have cut off nearly all the sediment supply to the East and Harlem Rivers, which in turn has stopped deposition in New York Harbor, increasing the danger of New York City flooding from Nor’easters and hurricanes,” the Earth’s Future report added.
Parsons warned all coastal cities should be mindful of what’s beneath the earth while building into the clouds. The United Nations forecast in its 2022 World Cities Report that “the proportion of people living in urban areas is projected to grow to 68% by 2050” — and more people typically leads to more construction.
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