Skyscrapers make Manhattan sag
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Crushing data from New York: Man is sinking his coastal cities
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A weighty sight: New York’s skyscrapers are so heavy that they push the borough of Manhattan towards sea level.
© Source: Mark Lennihan/AP/dpa
Sea levels are rising, and as if that wasn’t threatening enough, the world’s major port cities are sinking towards it from above. What does that have to do with the glaciers of the last Ice Age – and with people’s tendency to build skyscrapers by the water.
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The peephole into a sunken world consists of a square metal frame, next to which a mound of dug up, moist mudflats piles up. Men and women bend carefully over the exposed square meter – and look a seven-century-old myth in the eye. The group surveys the structures, interprets them with a trained eye, then retreats again before the tidal forces reclaim their possession. Rungholt belongs to the floods.
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2023-07-15 16:00:00
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