From 2016 to 2023, the US Open Venue- Arthur Ashe Stadium and runways at LaGuardia airport saw the most sinking, lowering at rates of 3.7 and 4.6 millimetres per year, respectively.
The “city that never sleeps” becomes the city that sinks. Click to read more. Rising sea level has been a major repercussion of climate change, primarily because of melting glaciers and ice sheets in polar continents, as well as in other icy regions of the world.
A study in journal Earth’s Future has found that New York is sinking at a rate of 1 to 2 millimetres per year. This is due to a phenomenon known as subsidence – which is exactly what happened in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath