The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world.

Venice is sinking at a rate of about 1 to 2 millimeters each year. This has raised concerns for both locals and tourists. If ...

In the near future, this means that some of the fastest-sinking cities in the world might soon be underwater. Rising oceans may be higher than the global average at different locations ...

To add fuel to the fire, world-renowned buildings like the Palace of Fine Arts are sinking quickly and clay layered below the city has cracked, leading to many leaning structures. While engineers ...

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The existing capital, Jakarta, is one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. A third of its area is expected to be underwater by 2050. To combat this crisis, Indonesia is constructing an ...

Driven either by lack of reliable water supplies from the utilities, or by the cost savings from these individual wells, the unregulated pumping is causing land subsidence and making Jakarta one of ...

The sinking of cities such as Jakarta and New Orleans is largely caused by humans pumping for groundwater and action must be taken for the cities to survive. Megacities on the coast have already ...

There are also concerns that the city itself could be sinking under the sheer weight of tourists and climate change. It is known that the city is sinking at a rate of around one to two millimetres ...

The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely ...