Satellite data shows how unevenly cities are sinking. In Jakarta, some coastal areas are subsiding by as much as 7cm a year.
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The abrupt disappearance of a lake is one clear sign that the ice below is melting, and a clue to wider permafrost changes.
Like living beyond your financial means, using more water than nature can replenish can have catastrophic results.
Cities can take action to stop subsidence – or else they need to adapt.
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Professor of Climate Adaptation, University of East Anglia
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Director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University
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Postdoctoral Research in Polar Geoscience, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
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Affiliated Professor in Arctic Hydrology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Senior Lecturer in Environment and Society, King's College London
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Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Spatial Data Science, King's College London