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New York City is sinking due to its million-plus buildings, study says

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Heavy rainfall from recent major hurricanes like Ida have inundated the city, and some of the effects of urbanization "have allowed water to come in," say experts.
(CNN) — New York City is sinking under the collective weight of all of its buildings, a new study has found. This gradual process could spell trouble for a city around which the sea level has been rising more than twice as fast as the global rate — and is projected to rise between 8 inches and 30 inches by
A new study published in the journal ‘Earth’s Future’ compared satellite data to the geology beneath Manhattan and it showed that the city is collapsing into the earth.

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