New York sinking under its own weight: study
If New York is the city that never sleeps then how's this for keeping you up at night? It is also sinking.
If New York is the city that never sleeps then how's this for keeping you up at night? It is also sinking.
Earth Sciences
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Environment
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Earth Sciences
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Engineering
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By the late 21st century, northeastern U.S. cities will see worsening hurricane outcomes, with storms arriving more quickly but slowing down once they've made landfall. As storms linger longer over the East Coast, they will ...
Earth Sciences
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Energy & Green Tech
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As communities across the Southeast United States and the Caribbean count the cost of flood and wind damage during Hurricane Matthew, a pioneering study led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz, Coastal Wetlands and Flood Damage ...
Environment
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Earth Sciences
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Breezy Point isn't next to the beach—it more or less is the beach. It's a community built on sand. Occupying the Rockaway Peninsula that juts out of Queens, NY and into the Atlantic Ocean, residents are never more than ...
Environment
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