The East Coast Is Sinking | Interactive – the New York Times
![Charleston, South Carolina, is among the cities scrambling to react to subsidence and rising seas. This city of 800,000 people is one of the fastest sinking cities (about 4 millimeters per year) in the eastern U.S (caption by by Adam Voiland and image by Lauren Dauphin, using data from Ohenhen, Leonard O., et al. (2023) courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/vlmcharleston_se1_2020_lrg-798x532.jpeg)
New satellite-based research reveals how land along the coast is slumping into the ocean, compounding the danger from global sea level rise.
A major culprit: overpumping of groundwater.
A ‘collapse’ is looming for Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, scientists say – the Washington Post
![Caminada Back Barrier Marsh Creation (Courtesy of Louisianan Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority via CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/50222487422_ed0e4c5f0c_c-798x449.jpg)
Scientists say the overwhelming majority of the state’s wetlands — a natural buffer against hurricanes — are in a state of ‘drowning’ and could be gone by 2070…