«It's like the sea is eating us up ... The city administration is desperately trying to counteract this, sinking huge concrete blocks into the water and surrounding the beaches with tetrahedrons ...

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Egyptian naval forces have rescued five more people and recovered four bodies, a day after a tourist yacht carrying 44 ...

Jakarta is sinking by an average of 1-15cm a year ... Its strategic location where the Ciliwung river flows into the Java Sea was one of the reasons why Dutch colonists chose to make it their ...

But in many waterfront megacities the ground is now dropping up to 10 times faster than the sea level is rising, experts have warned. The sinking of cities such as Jakarta and New Orleans is ...

A tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea on Monday after warnings of rough waters and 16 people were missing, Egyptian officials ...