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NBC: Some of the world’s expanding coastal cities face a two-pronged threat involving water: Sticking giant straws into the ground to suck up freshwater can cause the ground below to sink at the same time that sea levels are rising.
That interplay between subsiding land and rising seas highlights an underappreciated risk in global climate change, according to scientists.
It’s not known how many people live on coastal lands that are sinking due to excessive groundwater pumping, but about 150 million......
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That Sinking Feeling: Rising Sea Level Isn’t Cities’ Only Water Worry
Posted by NBC: None Given on November 1st, 2014
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