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Scientists have issued a new warning to the world’s coastal megacities that the threat from subsiding land is a more immediate problem than rising sea levels caused by global warming.
A new paper from the Deltares Research Institute in the Netherlands published in April identified regions of the globe where the ground level is falling 10 times faster than water levels are rising - with human activity often to blame. In Jakarta, Indonesia’s largest city, the population has grown from around half a million in the 1930s to just under 10 million today, with heavily populated areas dropping by as much as six and a half feet as groundwater is pumped up from the Earth to drink. The same practice led to Tokyo’s ground level falling by two meters before new restrictions were introduced, and in Venice, this sort of extraction has only compounded the effects of natural subsidence caused by long-term geological processes.
Tags: coastal, climate change, urban, megacities, water, environment, urban ecology. 
Matt Evan Dobbie's curator insight,
August 2, 2014 6:55 PM
Huge problem when combined with sea level rise 
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Could subsistence in megacities becoming a bigger threat than sea level rise? The population rise caused an increase in groundwater extraction practices which made the ground sink over six feet in Indonesia's largest city. The solution is to stop pumping groundwater and seek alternative forms of obtaining drinking water. Effects of land subsistence combined with rising sea levels can leave many coastal cities into project Atlantis.
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ALONG with its Nordic neighbours, Sweden features near the top of most gender-equality rankings. The World Economic Forum rates it as having one of the narrowest...
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If walls could talk, Turkey's Hagia Sophia would have
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The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign or the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Çanakkale (Turkish: Çanakkale Savaşı), took place ...
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Made in collaboration with Sparring Mind, the behavioral psychology blog. Read the full productivity post: http://bit.ly/XRcYAY TWEET IT - http://clicktotwee...
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3rd October is Day of German Unity (Tag der deutschen Einheit), a public holiday in Germany. This video briefly explains how Germany came to be divided in th...
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“ Travel operators in China have a huge new set of rules to follow now that the country's first tourism law is in place.”
Via Matt Beiriger
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A brief history of Bath's Roman baths Via Joy Kinley
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July 18, 2014 5:43 PM
The town of Bath in England was named for the Roman Baths that were constructed here. This was a resort town of sorts. In the 18th and 19th Centuries it again became a fashionable place for people to vacation and take "cures" or mineral baths.
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HeritageDaily 10 must see roman sites across the world HeritageDaily The Roman era is one of the most well known among today's civilization, it is an era of history that is taught at the majority of schools and was so widespread that you can visit... Via Joy Kinley
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July 22, 2014 10:26 AM
I don't know if I would list these as must see but they are interesting examples of Roman buildings. Roman ruins are found throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
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Times of India Via Joy Kinley
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July 22, 2014 10:57 AM
Even though WWI was a global war, we in the West seem to think of it as a purely European War (or using the primarily European descent former colonies). Millions of people from throughout Asia and Africa fought in this war as well and their contributions should be honored and remembered.
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Check out our new website http://www.evanshealthlab.com/ Follow Dr. Mike for new videos! http://twitter.com/docmikeevans DocMikeEvans follows up his viral he...
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The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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"One-third of the seafood Americans catch is sold abroad, but most of the seafood we eat here is imported and often of lower quality. Why? Author Paul Greenberg says it has to do with American tastes."
HazelAnne Prescott's curator insight,
July 31, 2014 10:56 AM
Seems like a messed up system. We do not have "taste" 
Abigail Mack's curator insight,
July 31, 2014 11:27 AM
What would make Americans opt for the lower quality, imported fish? 
BrianCaldwell7's curator insight,
March 16, 2016 3:45 PM
The United States exports the best-quality seafood that Americans catch, but import primarily low-grade aquacultural products. This is just one of the counter-intuitive issues withe U.S. fish consumption and production. This bizarre dynamic has cultural and economic explanations and this NPR podcast nicely explains these spatial patterns that are bound to frustrate those that advocate for locally sourced food productions.
Tags: food production, industry, food, agriculture, agribusiness, consumption, economic, sustainability.
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The Treaty of Versailles was was signed on June 28, 1919 -- exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- and it ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. This 90 second lesson delves deeper into the specifics of that very important document.
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Sometimes, you have to rage against the machine. And dance.
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German national elections are on 22nd September 2013, giving me an opportunity to explain roughly how the system works. Obviously, there's a lot more to it t...
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“ In November, just a month shy of the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth, a controversial collection of the revolutionary Chairman's words will be republished in China for the first time in decades.”
Via Thomas Faltin, Matt Beiriger
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International Business Times Via Joy Kinley
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July 17, 2014 5:18 PM
Benefits are paid to spouses and children even after the death of the soldiers that served. So the costs of wars can lasts many decades after the war ends.
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In less than a decade, mobile technology has spread to the furthest corners of the planet. Of the estimated 7 billion people on Earth, 6 billion now have Via Dr. Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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April 6, 2015 9:52 PM
Education is constantly changing. How are you coping with mobile learning?
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Russians Will Suffer in Putin's New Cold War Via Joy Kinley
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July 22, 2014 10:54 AM
Do you agree that this is the start of a "New Cold War"? Russia has been removing many Western groups and cutting links over the last few years. Backing or supporting the separatist groups in the Ukraine even furthered this idea. It is widely held that they have been sending or supplying these groups with weapons. Even if they did not condone or order the shooting down of flight MH17 it will dramatically increase tensions between Russia and the rest of the world.
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Editor's note: This story is one in a series on a crisis in America's Breadbasket –the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer and its effects on a region that hel...
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July 24, 2014 9:44 AM
I used to teach students about the surprising water crises in central and SE Wisconsin, one of the most water-rich states in the US. They were always blown away. Now, teaching in CO, everyone seems to have an awareness (anxiety?) about local water scarcity. This story, though, has more of a national, even global scope. 
Jamie Strickland's curator insight,
July 25, 2014 10:46 AM
Thanks to my good friend, Seth Dixon for the original scoop. There had been quite a bit of news reporting on the drought in central California this year, but this midwestern region has been experiencing water stress for years with little national attention. I plan to use this article in both an upcoming presentation as well as an example when I teach "Tragedy of the Commons" in my Environmental Dilemma class. 
Kate Buckland's curator insight,
July 26, 2014 10:32 PM
Good to compare to how we use water resources in Australia
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I'd never really taken notice, or heard of some, of the architectural deterrents mentioned here. I can't believe that we, as a society, go to such lengths to make life even more difficult for those already struggling.
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