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Study shows America’s financial capital is sinking at an average rate of one to two millimeters a year. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NEW YORK - If New York is the city that never sleeps then how’s this for keeping you up at night? It is also sinking.

The descent makes the metropolis more vulnerable to rising sea levels and coastal flooding caused by climate change, the researchers noted. Subsidence is the sinking of land mass caused by either natural processes such as erosion or human activity like mineral extraction.

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