The ground beneath New York City is sinking and rising across different areas, new research shows. The sinking has ...
NASA scientists find rising sea levels and a sinking city possibly bringing more flooding concerns to the major metropolitan ...
Mapping vertical land motion across the New York City area, researchers found the land sinking (indicated in blue) by about 0 ...
Between 2016 and 2023, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used a space-based method known as interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) to 3D-map the ground beneath New York ...
Some hotspots are sinking faster than others, including LaGuardia Airport, Arthur Ashe Stadium and Coney Island.
Not all land is uniformly level in greater New York City, and parts of the region — including major roads and the home of the ...
New York City is sinking at the same time that sea levels around the world are rising, which could exacerbate flooding concerns for the region.
The neighborhoods in New York City that saw the most rapid vertical land motion from 2016 to 2023, according to the study, ...
Scientists using space-based radar found that land in New York City is sinking at varying rates due to human and natural factors. A few spots are rising. Parts of the New York City metropolitan area a ...
New York, home to over 1 million buildings weighing nearly 1.7 trillion pounds, is going under its own weight and researchers ...
One scientist said basically parts of New York City built on landfill are sinking the fastest. Here are the areas included.
A new study has pinpointed just how much New York City is sinking, and which hotspots are most affected. As sea levels are rising, the Big Apple is sinking at a subsidence rate of about 1.6 ...
