Several coastal cities around the United States are "disappearing" into the ground, according to new research, which could further exacerbate complications of sea level rise in the near future. The continuous loss of land will affect most coastal cities, Leonard Ohenhen, a Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Tech University specializing in coastal vulnerability and large-scale land subsidence, told ABC News. "As climate change continues to worsen, we are going to see even more worsened effects in most coastal cities," he said. "Land subsidence can be mitigated fairly rapidly using engineering and nature-based solutions that we already have in our toolbox," Shirzaei said. Coastal US cities are sinking as sea levels continue to rise, new research shows originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Source: ABC News March 06, 2024 21:38 UTC