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United States: New York sinks under the weight of its skyscrapers

New York, the city that never sleeps… sown with towering, vertiginous skyscrapers that are in danger of disappearing, sinking under their own weight. In a scientific study published in the journal Earth’s Future, researchers “attempt to assess how the cumulative mass of the megalopolis’ infrastructure influences its subsidence”, a phenomenon directly caused by human activity and soil erosion. The city under 762 million tonnes of construction…