A new study has confirmed New York is sinking and its skyscrapers are bringing it down. Science Alert reports, New York is sinking at a rate of 1-2 millimeters per year which could pose a major risk to the low-lying city home to more than 8 million people. Veuer’s Chloe Hurst has the story!
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00:00A new study has confirmed New York is sinking and its skyscrapers are bringing it down.
00:06Science Alert reports New York is sinking at a rate of one to two millimetres per year,
00:11which could pose a major risk to the low-lying city, home to more than eight million people.
00:18The study by Tom Parsons of the United States Geological Survey and his colleagues at the
00:23University of Rhode Island should jolt further efforts to develop mitigation strategies to
00:28prevent flood risk and rising sea levels. Parsons reiterates, the point of the paper is to raise
00:34awareness that every additional high-rise building constructed at coastal river or lakefront settings
00:40could contribute to future flood risk. The study included a calculation of the cumulative mass of
00:46the more than one million buildings in New York City, equating to £1.68 trillion. The researchers
00:53concluded, New York is emblematic of growing coastal cities all over the world that are observed to
00:59be subsiding, meaning there is a shared global challenge of mitigation against a growing inundation hazard.