A 700-kilometre sea wall is to be built to protect northern Java from flooding. But critics warn that the US$50 billion ...

Land subsidence, the scientific term for sinking land ... 50 per cent of North Jakarta's area will be submerged by 2050. Other coastal areas in Indonesia, including Semarang, Pekalongan and their ...

According to the World Economic Forum , some of the world’s most iconic cities face an existential threat as sinking land and ...

Some areas in Bangkok may be sinking even faster due to the heavy use of the aquifer system (2 million cubic metres a day) and the weight of buildings Urban sinking, also known asland subsidence, ...

Other countries with subsidence rates exceeding 50 mm/y include the Philippines, Iran, Costa Rica, Indonesia and Uzbekistan. While this research provides an important global map of land subsidence ...

More than 200 people have stayed in one of Indonesia’s fastest sinking ... “This is the largest rate of land subsidence” ever recorded in the area, he said. Millions hit by extreme heat ...

This comes amid increasing land ownership inequality, land-grabbing, and agrarian conflicts in Indonesia, where up to 68% of lands are controlled by 1% of the population. President Prabowo ...