The situation could see one-quarter of China’s coastal lands slip below sea level within a few decades, posing “serious threats” to the hundreds of millions of people who live on the coast, the paper notes. In the famously low-lying Netherlands, roughly one-quarter of the land has subsided to below sea level. And by 2040, almost one-fifth of the world’s population is projected to be living on sinking land… Read complete article
Nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking — some ‘rapidly’
Attribution: Samrat Bharadwaj