According to the study, led by Marin Govorcin pointed out that California’s land is sinking faster than the sea is rising in ...
NASA scientists used satellite measurements to map out local subsidence and uplift across the Golden State, which plays into ...
Tracking and predicting sea level rise involves more than measuring the height of our oceans: Land along coastlines also ...
The sinking is being blamed upon unchecked groundwater pumping and wastewater injection as well as natural events like ...
Cliffs slope into the ocean in San Simeon, California. All along the state's dynamic coastline, land is inching down and up ...
The elevation changes may seem small — amounting to fractions of inches per year — but they can increase or decrease local ...
Subtle shifts in land elevation can considerably increase or decrease the local impacts of sea level rise along coastlines.