{"id":164766,"date":"2023-05-29T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/as-rising-oceans-threaten-nyc-study-documents-another-risk-the-city-is-sinking"},"modified":"2023-05-29T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:22:52","slug":"as-rising-oceans-threaten-nyc-study-documents-another-risk-the-city-is-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/as-rising-oceans-threaten-nyc-study-documents-another-risk-the-city-is-sinking","title":{"rendered":"As rising oceans threaten NYC, study documents another risk: The city is sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-rising-oceans-threaten-nyc-study-documents-another-risk-the-city-is-sinking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If rising oceans aren\u2019t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The metropolis is slowly sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, asphalt and humanity itself.<\/p>\n<p>New research estimates the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/city\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">city<\/a>\u2019s landmass is sinking at an average rate of 1 to 2 millimeters per year, something referred to as \u201csubsidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/natural+process\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural process<\/a> happens everywhere as ground is compressed, but the study published this month in the journal Earth\u2019s Future sought to estimate how the massive weight of the city itself is hurrying things along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If rising oceans aren\u2019t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The metropolis is slowly sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, asphalt and humanity itself. New research estimates the city\u2019s landmass is sinking at an average rate of 1 to 2 millimeters per year, something referred to as \u201csubsidence.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}