{"id":43423,"date":"2025-07-08T16:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43423"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:39:45","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-cities-around-the-world-are-sinking-at-worrying-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43423","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: Cities around the world are sinking at \u2018worrying speed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/London_Skyline_ColinandKim_Hansen_Wikimedia_Commons.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/London_Skyline_ColinandKim_Hansen_Wikimedia_Commons.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32334\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6d\/City_of_London_skyline_from_London_City_Hall_-Sept_2015-_Crop_Aligned.jpg\">London<\/a> by \u00a9 User:Colin and Kim Hansen\u00a0\/\u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of coastal regions that are sinking at a worrying speed, according to a study by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026. The team studied subsidence in and around 48 coastal cities in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas\u2026&nbsp; places that are particularly vulnerable to a combination of rising sea levels\u2026 and sinking land\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 the BBC estimates that nearly 76 million people live in parts of these cities that subsided, on average, at least 1cm per year between 2014 and 2020&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-14d00552-9211-4dab-89d1-60e34e226e43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: London by \u00a9 User:Colin and Kim Hansen\u00a0\/\u00a0Wikimedia Commons Dozens of coastal regions that are sinking at a worrying speed, according to a study by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,17,424,30,167,9,31,16,293],"class_list":["post-43423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-climate-change","tag-coasts","tag-environment","tag-flooding","tag-government","tag-nature","tag-planning","tag-waterways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43424,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43423\/revisions\/43424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}