{"id":173056,"date":"2023-09-29T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-york-is-simultaneously-sinking-and-rising-but-why"},"modified":"2023-09-29T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:33:32","slug":"new-york-is-simultaneously-sinking-and-rising-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-york-is-simultaneously-sinking-and-rising-but-why","title":{"rendered":"New York is simultaneously sinking and rising, but why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-york-is-simultaneously-sinking-and-rising-but-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Areas of New York City are sinking while others are rising at varying rates due to both natural and man-made factors.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key indicators of climate change is the rise in sea levels at a global scale, with recent rates being unprecedented in the last 2,500 years. In an exciting study published yesterday, 27 September, NASA-based scientists found that some areas of New York City are sinking while others are rising at varying rates due to natural and man-made factors.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting Engineering had reported earlier on a similar study, which said that New York is sinking due to a natural phenomenon called subsidence, where heavy objects, like buildings, gradually settle over time or when\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shuo Guo\/iStock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Areas of New York City are sinking while others are rising at varying rates due to both natural and man-made factors. One of the key indicators of climate change is the rise in sea levels at a global scale, with recent rates being unprecedented in the last 2,500 years. In an exciting study published yesterday, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173056","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}